Written questions

Northern Ireland Office: Artificial Intelligence

2026-06-09 · Northern Ireland Office · 8481 · Official question

Sir John Hayes

Question

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.

Answer

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...