Question follow-through · 51912
Artificial Intelligence: Infrastructure
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what progress he has made on setting up AI growth zones.
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 13 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 May 2025
- Answer
- 21 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what progress he has made on setting up AI growth zones.
15 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 May 2025
Answer published
His Majesty’s Government has made steady progress in delivering the AI Opportunities Action Plan, published in January.This includes establishing AI Growth Zones (AIGZs) to accelerate large-scale AI infrastructure development across the UK. Culham, home t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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