Question follow-through · 73691

Scotland Office: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, for what purposes their Department has used artificial intelligence in the last year.

answeredScotland Office

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Answering body
Scotland Office
Tabled
1 Sept 2025
Target answer date
2 Sept 2025
Answer
8 Sept 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 1 Sept 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, for what purposes their Department has used artificial intelligence in the last year.

  2. 2 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 8 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    Officials have used two prototype tools in the last year which are only accessible by government employees: GCS Assist and Redbox. These tools harness the latest transformative artificial intelligence technology. Officials can “chat” securely with a Large...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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