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Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department permits (a) Ministers, (b) special advisers and (c) officials to use (i) Chat GPT, (ii) Google Gemini, (iii) Claude, (iv) Deepseek and (v) Grok as part of their officia
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- Answering body
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Tabled
- 3 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 8 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 12 Jun 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
3 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department permits (a) Ministers, (b) special advisers and (c) officials to use (i) Chat GPT, (ii) Google Gemini, (iii) Claude, (iv) Deepseek and (v) Grok as part of their officia
8 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 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.Departments provide officials, Ministers and special advisers with access to secure, ente...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Translation Services
14 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how much her Department spent on interpreters and related translation services in 2025.