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Every entry on this page, generated from data.json. Click a name to open its panel at the top of the page. Entries with one source are tagged "one source".

Entry	Type	First source	Confidence	ID

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2 link cardsThese items were researched on this page but their full entry lives on another page, so they are counted once, there.

GOV-FCDO-016 UK–Australia memorandum of understanding on AI safety and security (May 2026) → UK–Australia Memorandum of Understanding on AI security (AISI and Australia's AI Safety Institute) full entry on the Cabinet Office page
GOV-FCDO-022 UK–Ukraine AI partnership (cross-reference) → UK–Ukraine AI partnership (Avengers AI Labs access) full entry on the Defence page

Identity

As written in the research. Data as of 28 October 2026 (edition 2.1).

official nameForeign, Commonwealth & Development Office

short labelFCDO

govuk categoryMinisterial department

govuk urlgov.uk/government/organisations/foreign-commonwe

headquartersKing Charles Street, London, SW1A 2AH, United Kingdom; postcode SW1A 2AH; lat 51.502432, lng -0.128047 (sources: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/foreign-commonwealth-development-office ; https://api.postcodes.io/postcodes/SW1A2AH). Second office: Abercrombie House, Eaglesham Road, East Kilbride, G75 8EA. [FCDO East Kilbride office: lat 55.760912, lng -4.224225; address: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/foreign-commonwealth-development-office; coordinates: https://api.postcodes.io/postcodes/G758EA (accessed 2026-10-28)]

parent (as of 2026-10-28)none (ministerial department of HM Government)

previous parent / parent changednone

blurbThe department that runs the UK's AI diplomacy, from the Bletchley and Seoul declarations to the UN, G7 and bilateral technology partnerships, and funds AI for Development with Canada.

website still shows old brandingno. The FCDO page shows Ed Miliband as Foreign Secretary and Lindy Cameron as Permanent Under-Secretary. Older AI pages it co-published (Bletchley Declaration, India AI Impact Summit release) still name the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.

Gaps the research left open

12Shown as gaps, never filled in by guesswork. Supplement 1 (the second pass) closed some; they are listed below.

FCDO AI and technology directorate / Technology envoy: no directorate or envoy with an AI title appears on the FCDO organisation page (28 October 2026); the special representatives list has no technology envoy. The only AI-titled role found is Uma Kumaran's "global tech & AI" portfolio line. The "FCDO Information and Digital Directorate" is known only from the Correspondence Triage ATRS record.
British Council AI work: not checked (no FCDO-funded AI item found in the FCDO search listing).
Paris AI Action Summit: no GOV.UK page records the UK's decision not to sign; the only source opened is Channel 4 News (secondary). The FCDO policy paper of 10 February 2025 on gender and the AI Action Summit was listed but not opened.
Council of Europe Framework Convention: the Council of Europe treaty office page (signatures and ratifications) returned a client error; UK ratification status is unverified.
India AI Impact Summit 2026: the two GOV.UK releases do not say whether the UK signed any summit declaration; summit dates not stated on either page.
UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI and Global Dialogue on AI Governance: no UK role found on the GOV.UK pages opened.
UK–France, UK–Canada, UK–Singapore, UK–Korea bilateral AI agreements: not opened (search budget); not recorded. UK–Korea co-hosting of the Seoul summit is inside GOV-FCDO-006. The "UK-Japan Digital Partnership" (23 January 2025) was listed but not opened.
UK–Australia AISI MoU: found only on the Australian Department of Industry site; the Cabinet Office page is for the Cabinet Office researcher. No GOV.UK page surfaced via the search API.
Global Research and Technology Development approach paper: 40-page PDF not read; AI content unverified.
Baroness Chapman's ministerial title is not on the current ministers list; recorded only as the foreword author.
Northern Ireland Office, Scotland Office and Wales Office: all three GOV.UK pages checked on 28 October 2026; no AI publication, news or ATRS record found for any of them. The Scotland Office and Wales Office have AI in a minister's portfolio line (List of Ministerial Responsibilities, 22 October 2026). The NIO has none. All three go in the "checked, nothing found" list.
Fetch budget: the hourly web-fetch allowance ran out at about 12:25 UTC and work resumed at 13:00 UTC; five WebSearch calls were used in total.

Closed by Supplement 1 (1)

NIO, Scotland Office and Wales Office "(null, null)" — S1b GOV-FCDO-019, 020, 021; second offices in S1c

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