Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what benchmark criteria his Department is using to assess the effectiveness of implementation of the Defence Artificial Intelligence Strategy, published in June 2022.

The Ministry of Defence is developing specific targets for core enablers that are necessary to adopt AI at scale across the organisation (people, processes, technology, and data). The AI Delivery Group (AIDG) - chaired by our Second Permanent Secretary - is overseeing this work, balancing centrally driven activities with the recognition that some areas of Defence will move faster than others and we cannot risk stifling the pace of innovation through an overly regimented programme management approach.