Question follow-through · 28092
Home Office: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of banning the use by officials in her Department of the DeepSeek artificial intelligence model.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 3 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 10 Feb 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of banning the use by officials in her Department of the DeepSeek artificial intelligence model.
10 Feb 2025
Target answer date
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10 Feb 2025
Answer published
The Government has a robust set of security policies in place to oversee how information is handled, within our buildings, on our IT and by our staff.We keep these policies under constant review to ensure they are applicable to new technologies.The Govern...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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