Written questions

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Artificial Intelligence

2026-06-01 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · 5864 · Official question

Sir John Hayes

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 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 offi

Answer

This 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 Department provides officials, Ministers and special advisers with access to secure...