Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 15 October 2024 to Question 8456 on Strategic Defence Review, whether the artificial intelligence software being used to assess responses to the Strategic Defence Review was sourced from UK programmers down to lowest sub contract level.

The Ministry of Defence is working with several technology providers in Defence's digital ecosystem to support the Strategic Defence Review (SDR). This allowed the team to leverage modern business practices and technologies to analyse a wide range of responses. The Department has rigorous controls in place to secure and use data in accordance with regulatory and ethical guidelines, to which SDR activities, including AI, aligned.