Written Question·Department for Science, Innovation and Technology·UIN 17926

Artificial Intelligence: Laboratories

Tabled: 10 July 2026

Answered: 17 July 2026

Question

James McMurdock

Independent — South Basildon and East Thurrock

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology's press release entitled UK backs new AI labs to make technology cheaper, more reliable and easier to use, publis

Answer

Kanishka Narayan

The UK AI Research Labs are funded and delivered through UKRI, and will be strategically managed in line with standard M&E processes for a grant of its kind. Additionally, the programme funding is ‘stage-gated’, where the initial research grant period...

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