Department for Science, Innovation and Technology written question – answered at on 12 June 2026.
Ben Obese-Jecty
Conservative, Huntingdon
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to the National Security Strategy 2025: Security for the British People in a Dangerous World, CP1338, published on 24 June 2025, what progress she has made in enhancing collaboration with Canada on AI.
Kanishka Narayan
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
The UK is pleased to collaborate with a number of international partners through bilateral and multilateral activity, including Canada. The UK and Canada share common values and are working together to promote the safe, secure and responsible development of AI. This includes collaboration between the UK's AI Security Institute and Canada's AI Safety Institute, as well as furthering cooperation on supercomputing. In December 2025, building upon 2024's Compute MoU, the UK and Canada agreed a partnership between the UK's National Supercomputing Centre, based at the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, and the Digital Research Alliance of Canada, which will advance the delivery of large-scale compute for research.
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