Written questions

Ministry of Justice: Artificial Intelligence

Commons · Question 11812 · Tabled 22 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice · Official record

Answered 25 Jun 2026

Question

Asked by Nick Timothy

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has spent on the open-source AI model Qwen in the past two years.

Answer

Answered by Jake Richards, 25 Jun 2026

As Qwen is free and open source, any individual or organisation can copy, edit, and use it without any payment to the author of the model.Qwen has been used within the Ministry of Justice for targeted analytical and research activities. Whilst use of the ...