Question follow-through · 5857
Department for Transport: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her department permits (1) Ministers, (2) Special advisers and (3) officials to use (a) Chat GPT, (b) Google Gemini, (c) Claude, (d) Deepseek and (e) Grok as part of their official duties.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 2 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 4 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 19 Jun 2026 · 17 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her department permits (1) Ministers, (2) Special advisers and (3) officials to use (a) Chat GPT, (b) Google Gemini, (c) Claude, (d) Deepseek and (e) Grok as part of their official duties.
4 Jun 2026
Target answer date
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19 Jun 2026
Answer published
The Government is committed to harnessing the benefits of artificial intelligence to improve the productivity of the Civil Service and the quality of public services. The Department for Transport published the Transport Action Plan in June 2025 which sets...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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