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A pro-innovation approach to AI regulation: government response

Record GB-04 · CP 1019

Issued by
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT)
Jurisdiction
United Kingdom
Level · region
National · Europe
Published / adopted
2024-02-06
Language
English
Official identifier
CP 1019

Summary

Government response to the consultation on the March 2023 AI regulation white paper. It keeps the five cross-sectoral principles for existing regulators on a non-statutory basis, sets up a central function in DSIT for cross-sectoral AI risk monitoring and regulator coordination, and plans targeted consultation on a cross-economy AI risk register. For highly capable general-purpose AI it relies for now on voluntary measures by developers and on testing of models before and after deployment, led by the AI Safety Institute, and sets out the case for future targeted binding requirements on their developers.

Safety topics

general-purpose / frontier AIevaluation & testingsafety instituteaccountability & liabilitycatastrophic risk

Status notes

Presented to Parliament on 6 February 2024 as Command Paper CP 1019, in response to the consultation on the white paper of March 2023, which ran from 29 March to 21 June 2023 and received 409 responses. It asked a number of regulators to publish their strategic approach to AI by 30 April 2024, announced £10 million for regulators' AI capabilities and a steering committee of government and regulator representatives, and left a statutory duty on regulators to have due regard to the principles for after a review of an initial period of non-statutory implementation.

Sources

Open the official source https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/ai-regulation-a-pro-innovation-approach-policy-proposals/outcome/a-pro-innovation-approach-to-ai-regulation-government-response

Secondary source: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/ai-regulation-a-pro-innovation-approach-policy-proposals

Local copy

Archived. Last attempt 2026-10-17 20:42:03 UTC

Official source (third-party copy, not published) archive/GB-04/2026-10-17/official.html
Retrieved 2026-10-17 20:42:09 UTC
SHA-256 664bfe072d9786685e5ce4c5d0f77a6f42bba586ef9b867acfabca32f955550c
Linked document (PDF) (third-party copy, not published) archive/GB-04/2026-10-17/document-1.pdf
Retrieved 2026-10-17 20:42:13 UTC
SHA-256 ddb99cdc5558282b9e8485d2778f93603bd548ddcbc63ec3b1978b22a09daaf4
Linked document (PDF) (third-party copy, not published) archive/GB-04/2026-10-17/document-2.pdf
Retrieved 2026-10-17 20:42:18 UTC
SHA-256 c60009d0546482b80d2dbff1e667ca52953e8bc3767346b6db0ff08d4761f049
Secondary source (third-party copy, not published) archive/GB-04/2026-10-17/secondary.html
Retrieved 2026-10-17 20:42:23 UTC
SHA-256 05136f7ffa363c35f227c6a5059a2a363d36e0faf307280311ecefa7aee0b8d3

Verification

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The instrument's own official text, or an official register, was stored and confirms the title, date and status. checked 2026-10-17 · official-url-fetched
Stored and read in this run: the GOV.UK consultation outcome page with the full text of the response (snapshot of 11 Oct 2026, unchanged on 17 Oct), which gives the title, CP 1019, presentation to Parliament on 6 February 2024 and the passages behind the summary and notes; and the consultation page (stored 17 Oct 2026 and proposed as the new secondary source), which records 'Government response to consultation published' on 6 February 2024, the consultation period and 409 responses, with the response's web-ready and print-ready PDFs. The former secondary source was the white paper's publication page (GB-01's source), and the two PDFs linked from the response page are a November 2023 response to a different review and the white paper's March 2023 impact assessment. Version 1's notes on the Labour government's plans for frontier-AI legislation are not in a stored file and were removed (see open questions).
Second check: Independent check by Claude Code (claude-sonnet-5-5), 2026-10-17: 6 field(s) supported.

History

  1. 2026-10-18related: [{"slug": "uk-ai-regulation-white-paper-2023", "id": "GB-01"}, {"slug": "uk-ai-s → [{"slug": "uk-ai-regulation-white-paper-2023", "id": "GB-01"}, {"slug": "uk-ai-s — two-way link added: GB-05 link(s) to GB-042026-10-18-fix-related-links · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  2. 2026-10-17notes: Presented to Parliament on 6 Feb 2024. The principles remain non-statutory. The → Presented to Parliament on 6 February 2024 as Command Paper CP 1019, in response — rewritten from the stored text (CP 1019, the consultation period and 409 responses, regulators' updates by 30 April 2024, £10 million, steering committee, statutory duty left for review); version 1's statements on the Labour government and the absence of an AI bill as of October 2026 rest on no stored file and were removed2026-10-17-recheck-europe-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  3. 2026-10-17summary: Confirms the principles-based, regulator-led framework, sets up a central functi → Government response to the consultation on the March 2023 AI regulation white pa — reworded closer to the stored text: non-statutory principles, the central function's risk monitoring in DSIT, consultation on (not keeping) a risk register, testing before and after deployment led by the AI Safety Institute2026-10-17-recheck-europe-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  4. 2026-10-17secondary_url: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-regulation-a-pro-innovation-approa → https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/ai-regulation-a-pro-innovation-appro — the former secondary source was the white paper's page (GB-01's official URL); the consultation page, now stored, lists this outcome as published on 6 February 20242026-10-17-recheck-europe-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

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Citation

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT). A pro-innovation approach to AI regulation: government response [CP 1019]. 2024-02-06. https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/ai-regulation-a-pro-innovation-approach-policy-proposals/outcome/a-pro-innovation-approach-to-ai-regulation-government-response. Status: Published (non-binding, current); verified 2026-10-17 (level A). Local copy archive/GB-04/2026-10-17/official.html retrieved 2026-10-17 20:42:09 UTC, SHA-256 664bfe072d9786685e5ce4c5d0f77a6f42bba586ef9b867acfabca32f955550c. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record GB-04.

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