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 ...