Written questions

Department for Education: Artificial Intelligence

2026-06-01 · Department for Education · 5856 · Official question

Sir John Hayes

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, 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 official duties.

Answer

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. Ministers, special advisers and officials may only use generative AI tools that hav...