Question follow-through · 5858
Treasury: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 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
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 2 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 4 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 10 Jun 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 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
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Jun 2026
Answer published
Ministers, special advisers, and officials in HM Treasury have access to HMT-GPT, our internal AI tool which is built on Claude and ChatGPT, and Copilot, which have been assured to the appropriate security standards and approved for official use. The use ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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