Question follow-through · 126535
Department for Business and Trade: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether their Department has used artificial intelligence to assist with drafting (a) legislation and (b) policy in the past 12 months.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 13 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 15 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 21 Apr 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether their Department has used artificial intelligence to assist with drafting (a) legislation and (b) policy in the past 12 months.
15 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Apr 2026
Answer published
DBT has used and continues to use artificial intelligence tools like Copilot and DBT Assist to support colleagues in their work, for example to help produce initial drafts, summaries, or research. The Department’s policy states that ‘human review/approval...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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