Question follow-through · 126537

Home Office: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether their Department has used artificial intelligence to assist with drafting (a) legislation and (b) policy in the past 12 months.

answeredHome Office

About this written question

A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.

Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 13 Apr 2026
Target answer date: 15 Apr 2026
Answer: 21 Apr 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

13 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, 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
AI is being used for a range of purposes in the Home Office to improve business delivery as part of overall digital improvements in the department. The use of AI tools is supported by departmental guidance and ongoing staff training to ensure responsible,...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum: Chagossians

14 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of asylum claims of Chagossians to the United Kingdom from a) Mauritius and b) the Seychelles since July 2024.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Fuel Oil: Theft

15 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help prevent heating oil theft in rural communities in Lincolnshire.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum: Chagossians

17 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her department has kept records of complaints made by Chagossian asylum seekers fleeing Mauritius and applying for asylum in the United Kingdom in the last 10 years.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Home Office: Training

21 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the list of training programmes used by civil servants in her Department since 2020.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Sham Marriage

13 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps she has taken to tackle sham marriages.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Crime: Lincolnshire

14 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the resources available to Lincolnshire police to tackle rural crime.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Police: Biometrics

14 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it is her policy that police forces in England use facial recognition technology during protests.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum: Lincolnshire

18 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what target figure for asylum dispersal has been given for a) South Holland District and b) South Kesteven district.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum: Housing

18 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many properties a) her department and b) Clearsprings Ready Homes Ltd have acquired in England for asylum dispersal since July 2024.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Immigration Controls: Ebola

18 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to support border and immigration officials to deal with people coming to the UK with possible cases of the Ebola virus.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum: Temporary Accommodation

19 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the total cost to the public purse of contracts awarded to Corporate Travel Management since July 2024 in relation to accommodation for asylum seekers.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

People Smuggling

20 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been (a) intercepted and (b) arrested since January 2025 in relation to smuggling illegal migrants into the UK.