Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether her Department permits (a) Ministers, (b) special advisers and (3) officials to use (i) Chat GPT, (ii) Google Gemini, (iii) Claude, (iv) Deepseek and (v) Grok as part of their official duties.

The Government's use of generative AI is governed by the Generative AI Framework and AI Playbook for the UK Government, which set out the principles for its safe, responsible and effective use. The only generative AI tool currently cleared for use within the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office is Microsoft Copilot, which has been assured to the appropriate security standards and approved for use by all staff in the Department.