Question follow-through · 26787
Maritime and Coastguard Agency
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what purposes the Maritime and Coastguard Agency has used artificial intelligence in the last 12 months.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 28 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 5 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what purposes the Maritime and Coastguard Agency has used artificial intelligence in the last 12 months.
30 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Feb 2025
Answer published
MCA are using Microsoft 365 Copilot, which is a Generative AI tool for productivity. This tool is being trialled by a selected number of users. Copilot has been used to undertake tasks such as summarising documents, minute taking, report writing and docum...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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