Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of banning the use by officials in her Department of the DeepSeek artificial intelligence model.

The Government has a robust set of security policies in place to oversee how information is handled, within our buildings, on our IT and by our staff.

We keep these policies under constant review to ensure they are applicable to new technologies.

The Government's Generative AI framework outlines that only corporately assured Generative AI tools should be used to process HMG information. Everyone who works with government has a duty of confidentiality and a responsibility to safeguard any government information or data that they process, access or share, and all government departments are required to meet a range of mandatory security standards.