Question follow-through · 3880
Artificial Intelligence: Public Sector
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether her Department has made an assessment of the use of independent security assurance and red-team testing requirements in public sector procurement of AI systems.
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 21 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 8 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 11 Jun 2026 · 21 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether her Department has made an assessment of the use of independent security assurance and red-team testing requirements in public sector procurement of AI systems.
8 Jun 2026
Target answer date
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11 Jun 2026
Answer published
The UK government has worked within the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to create a global standard (EN 304 223) that sets baseline security requirements for the developers and deployers of AI models and systems. This standard will ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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