Question follow-through · 127041
Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has used artificial intelligence to assist with drafting (a) legislation and (b) policy in the last 12 months.
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- Answering body
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 14 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 16 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 28 Apr 2026 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has used artificial intelligence to assist with drafting (a) legislation and (b) policy in the last 12 months.
16 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Apr 2026
Answer published
The drafting of primary and secondary legislation is the responsibility of a large number of officials across government departments. A range of tools are used to assist with this drafting, including AI which is most commonly used to check, critique, and ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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