Question follow-through · 5864
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 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 offi
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 2 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 4 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 9 Jun 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 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 offi
4 Jun 2026
Target answer date
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9 Jun 2026
Answer published
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9 Jul 2026
Answer corrected
This 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 provides officials, Ministers and special advisers with access to secure...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Remote Working
9 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department permits civil servants employed in the UK to work from overseas on a regular basis.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Public Relations
19 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has hired external public relations consultants since July 2024.
Biodiversity: Property Development
26 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the changes to Biodiversity Net Gain requirements on nature recovery in South Holland and the Deepings constituency.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Public Appointments
29 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many political appointees have been made by her department since July 2024.
Wind Power: Birds
1 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her department has estimated how many seabirds have died due to colliding with offshore wind turbines for each of the last five years.
Water: Data Centres
8 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to monitor water usage nationally from the growth of data centres.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Staff
10 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, other than special advisers if her Department has appointed anyone from outside the civil service since July 2024.
Arable Farming: Lincolnshire
10 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps she has taken to support arable farmers in (a) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (b) Lincolnshire.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Agency Workers
13 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many agency staff were employed by her Department in each of the last five years.
Wildlife: Lincolnshire
16 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to support wildlife conservation sites in Lincolnshire.
Water: Shortages
28 Aug 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department holds records on how many (1) people or (2) organisations have been issued warnings about breaching hosepipe bans in the past ten years.