Question follow-through · 26941
Artificial Intelligence: Skilled Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what recent assessment has he made of the AI skills gap.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- 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 Science, Innovation and Technology, what recent assessment has he made of the AI skills gap.
30 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Feb 2025
Answer published
Reducing the AI skills gap is critical for increasing the UK’s productivity and delivering long-term growth. DSIT regularly reviews the status of the UK’s AI labour market, and most recently commissioned Gardiner & Theobald LLP to conduct a survey of ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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