Question follow-through · 38532
Home Office: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to ban the use of DeepSeek by her Department.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 17 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 19 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 25 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to ban the use of DeepSeek by her Department.
19 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Mar 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 UK Go...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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