Question follow-through · 28818
Artificial Intelligence: China
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what information her Department holds on the distillation of UK AI models by China.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 10 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 15 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 25 Sept 2026 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what information her Department holds on the distillation of UK AI models by China.
15 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Sept 2026
Answer published
Distillation is the practice of training a "student" model to reproduce the capabilities or characteristics of a more capable "teacher" model. Developers commonly distill their own models to produce smaller, cheaper versions, and some ...
Official data retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
Later records
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