# AI Opportunities Action Plan

- **Jurisdiction:** United Kingdom (GB)
- **Type:** Strategy · **Status:** In force · **Binding:** no
- **Issued by:** Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT)
- **Proposed:** — · **Adopted:** 13 Jan 2025 · **Effective:** 13 Jan 2025
- **Obligations:** Regulatory sandbox, Government use of AI
- **Sectors:** All sectors, Public sector

## Summary
Government plan (with 50 recommendations accepted) to expand compute, data access, AI adoption in the public sector and regulator-led sandboxes, within the UK's non-statutory, regulator-by-regulator approach to AI. A one-year-on progress report was published in January 2026.

## Why it matters
The UK still has no horizontal AI statute; existing regulators (ICO, FCA, CMA, Ofcom, MHRA) apply current law to AI, guided by this plan.

## Source
[GOV.UK](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-opportunities-action-plan)
Checked against the source on 4 Oct 2026. No AI bill was included in the King's Speech of 13 May 2026.

## Cite
AI Opportunities Action Plan. Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT). Status: In force. wheresthe.ai, https://wheresthe.ai/rule/gb-ai-opportunities-action-plan-2025/ (verified 4 Oct 2026).

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