Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Government's publication A pro-innovation approach to AI regulation, published on 29 March 2023, how much and what proportion of the budget of each regulator in their Department was spent on regulation of artificial intelligence in the latest period for which information is available; how many staff in each regulator worked (a) wholly and (b) partly on those issues in the latest period for which information is available; and whether those regulators plan to increase resources for their work on artificial intelligence.

The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Regulation White Paper emphasised the importance of ensuring that UK regulators and public bodies have the capacity, expertise, and capabilities to implement the Government's pro-innovation approach whilst recognising and understanding the risks.

We are continuing to engage with regulators across the wider landscape to understand the organisational capacity needed to regulate AI effectively, which will inform our work to develop policy options.

However, due to difficulties in accurately disaggregating 'AI resource', we are not in a position to provide figures on the proportion of budget spent and staff working on AI regulation.