The OECD.AI Policy Navigator

A national strategy designed to accelerate the application of artificial intelligence across scientific research and discovery in the United Kingdom.

AI Growth Zones are designated regions in the United Kingdom aimed at accelerating the development of AI infrastructure, including data centres and computing capacity, while fostering AI innovation ecosystems.

A landmark UK Act of Parliament, which received Royal Assent in May 2024, that gives the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) new strategic market status (SMS) powers to regulate the most powerful digital platform companies and introduces a new pro-competition regime for digital markets.

The UK National Data Library (NDL) is a government initiative to create a central infrastructure for the responsible management and sharing of public sector data, enabling businesses, researchers and public servants to access high-value datasets to deliver better public services, drive economic growth and support AI innovation.

Assist is a secure tool created in-house to support government communicators. It went live in April 2025, following the initial prototype launch in November 2023. The tool features pre-built, task-specific prompts to save users time. It enables communicators to brainstorm ideas, produce first draft communication products and review work in a fraction of the time it would otherwise take manually.

An application that allows users to use Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT) to generate draft Fraud Risk Assessments (FRA)s by reference to a defined set of source documents. This allows the UK's Public Sector Fraud Authority (PSFA), and external teams it collaborates with, to generate draft FRAs using Large Language Models (LLMs).

The Health Data Research Service (HDRS) is a new UK-wide, government-owned company to transform how researchers and innovators access health and care data across the UK.

The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, enacted on 19 June 2025 by the UK Parliament, establishes a broad legislative framework governing data access, privacy, and digital services. It covers customer and business data access, personal data processing, electronic communications, health and social care information standards, biometric data retention, trust services, and provisions relating to copyright and the development of artificial intelligence systems.