Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to ban the use of DeepSeek by her Department.

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 UK Government only uses corporately assured Generative AI tools to process HMG information. Everyone who works in 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.