Question follow-through · 8481
Northern Ireland Office: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 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 official duties.
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- Answering body
- Northern Ireland Office
- Tabled
- 10 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 15 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 23 Jun 2026 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 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 official duties.
15 Jun 2026
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23 Jun 2026
Answer published
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8 Jul 2026
Answer corrected
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 Northern Ireland Office (NIO) provides officials, Ministers and special advisers wit...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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