Question follow-through · 33788
Ministry of Defence: Written Questions
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department is using AI software in responding to written parliamentary questions.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 25 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 5 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
More questions by this MP on Defence and foreign affairs
- Armed Forces: Recruitment · 17 Mar 2025
- Ministry of Defence: Equality · 17 Mar 2025
- Defence: Procurement · 25 Mar 2025
- Armed Forces: Housing · 25 Mar 2025
- Ministry of Defence: Written Questions · 28 Apr 2025
Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.
Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day Motion: Defence spending and readiness - Prime Minister's Amendment · 23 Jun 2026
- Opposition day: Defence spending and readiness · 23 Jun 2026
- Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: Amendment 11 · 22 Jun 2026
These Commons divisions share a topic label. The question did not necessarily lead to a vote.
Recorded timeline
25 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department is using AI software in responding to written parliamentary questions.
27 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Mar 2025
Answer published
I can reassure the hon. Member that all parliamentary questions are personally signed off by a Minister. I signed this one off at my desk in the Ministry of Defence at 3.07pm on 4 March 2025 for instance.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.
Armed Forces: Recruitment
17 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions his Department has had with the Department for Education on promoting careers in the armed forces in (a) schools and (b) other educational settings.
Ministry of Defence: Equality
17 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether they have made an estimate of the potential impact of abolishing diversity, equity and inclusion roles in their Department on annual staffing costs.
Defence: Procurement
25 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department plans to expand its procurement activities to UK Small and Medium Sized Enterprises.
Armed Forces: Housing
25 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of housing provision for service personnel.
Ministry of Defence: Written Questions
28 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 5 March to Question 33788 on Ministry of Defence: Written Questions, whether AI is used at any stage in the drafting of responses to parliamentary questions.
Ministry of Defence: Procurement
2 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has made an assessment of the effectiveness of his Department's procurement function.
Defence: Procurement
5 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of outsourcing procurement operations to the private sector.
Ministry of Defence: Termination of Employment
9 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many permanent civil servants in his Department had their contract of employment terminated as a result of poor performance in the (a) 2022-23, (b) 2023-24 and (c) 2024-25 financial years.
Armed Forces: Workplace Pensions
24 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress his Department has made on issuing Armed Forces Pension Scheme Remediable Service Statements to all members who require one by 30 September 2025.
Ministry of Defence: Water
15 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the operational effectiveness of his Department's (a) water and (b) wastewater services contracted with third party providers.
Ministry of Defence: Small Businesses
16 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to promote the use of small and medium sized businesses in the Department's supply chain.
Armed Forces: Age
10 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of lowering the age for deployable service-personnel to 16.