Question follow-through · 5866
Department of Health and Social Care: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his 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 of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 2 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 4 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 15 Jun 2026 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his 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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15 Jun 2026
Answer published
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7 Jul 2026
Answer corrected
The Government is committed to harnessing the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the productivity of the Civil Service and the quality of public services.Departments provide officials, Ministers and special advisers with access to secure,...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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