Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of apps which offer mental health advice via (a) chatbots and (b) large language models.

The Department has not made an assessment or estimated the number of mental health advice chatbots and large language models.

Publicly available artificial intelligence (AI) applications that are not deployed by the National Health Service, such as ChatGPT and Character AI, are not regulated as medical technologies and may offer incorrect or harmful information. Users are strongly advised to be careful when using these technologies.