Question follow-through · 84751
Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what criteria his Department is using to select locations for AI Growth Zones.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 23 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 31 Oct 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what criteria his Department is using to select locations for AI Growth Zones.
27 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Oct 2025
Answer published
I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave on 24 October 2025 to Question UIN 82268.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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