Question follow-through · 73681
Department of Health and Social Care: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what purposes their Department has used artificial intelligence in the last year.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 1 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 11 Sept 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
1 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what purposes their Department has used artificial intelligence in the last year.
3 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Sept 2025
Answer published
The Department has developed, as proof-of-concept projects, artificial intelligence (AI) enabled summarisation tools that have been used to analyse and draw out key themes from free text and survey responses, as well as to summarise academic journals and ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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