Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what rules apply to AI Security Institute staff and advisers who hold roles with organisations that apply for, or receive funding from, programmes the Institute administers; whether a register of such roles is published; and which body is responsible for assessing the cumulative concentration of advisory, agenda-setting and funding-related roles among the same individuals and organisations following the transfer of responsibility for the Institute to the Cabinet Office.

The AI Security Institute’s staff are bound by the Civil Service Code, the Declaration and Management of Outside Interests guidance, and departmental Conflict of Interest Guidance. Staff are required to declare any outside interests that could give rise to an actual or perceived conflict. Declared interests are assessed and mitigated as appropriate.

Advisers are also subject to applicable conflict of interest, confidentiality and governance requirements through their terms of appointment, contracts or other engagement arrangements.

Conflicts of interest controls are also applied throughout the Institute’s commercial and grant-making activities, including procurement, supplier selection, contract award and management, grant assessment, award and ongoing grant management. Individuals involved must declare any actual, potential or perceived conflict before participating in contract or grant award decisions.

Senior Civil Servants' paid outside roles are published in line with cross Government requirements.

Following the Machinery of Government changes, responsibility for managing conflicts of interests at the AI Security Institute rests with the Cabinet Office Permanent Secretary as Accounting Officer.