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

GOV-LOC-004 Minute (i.AI AI scribe for councils) → Minute (AI meeting scribe) full entry on the Cabinet Office page
GOV-LOC-005 Caddy (i.AI assistant for Citizens Advice advisers) → Caddy (adviser copilot for Citizens Advice) full entry on the Cabinet Office page
GOV-LOC-006 Extract offered to every local planning authority (national-layer entry) → Extract (planning document digitisation) full entry on the Housing & Communities page
GOV-LOC-015 LGSCO Chatbot (national-layer entry) → LGSCO Chatbot (ATRS) full entry on the Housing & Communities page
GOV-LOC-020 Mayoral Data Council (national-layer entry) → Mayoral Data Council full entry on the Housing & Communities page

Identity

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

official nameLocal government in England — national layer (hub page above the strategic authority pages)

short labelLocal government

govuk categoryGroup page

govuk urlgov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-hous

headquartersn/a (group page). Sponsoring department: 2 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4DF; lat 51.495868, lng -0.129786 (https://api.postcodes.io/postcodes/SW1P4DF). Local Government Association: 18 Smith Square, London SW1P 3HZ — address not read in this session; see Gaps.

parent (as of 2026-10-28)Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government sponsors local government; "Local economic growth and devolution strategy" moved to No.10 North in the Office for the Prime Minister and Cabinet on 22 July 2026.

previous parent / parent changeddevolution strategy was in MHCLG until 2026-07-22 (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/machinery-of-government-changes-fact-sheet).

blurbThe national bodies and programmes that shape how England's councils and strategic authorities use AI: the LGA's AI Hub and use case bank, MHCLG's Local AI and planning AI tools, the i.AI tools offered to councils, Socitm and Solace, the ICO's guidance, and the strategic authorities created by the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026.

website still shows old brandingn/a. The LGA's State of the sector 2025 page and the i.AI site predate the July 2026 changes; i.AI still says it sits in DSIT.

Gaps the research left open

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

Blocked or failed URLs: https://www.local.gov.uk/our-support/cyber-digital-and-technology/artificial-intelligence-hub (first attempt blocked; a later attempt loaded); https://www.local.gov.uk/local-government-ai-network, https://www.local.gov.uk/ai-practitioners-network and https://www.local.gov.uk/node/8277263 (site errors); https://socitm.net/ and https://www.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/ (permission not granted; not retried); https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/no-10-north (does not load; no GOV.UK organisation page for No.10 North was found by search either).
LGA case bank count: the LGA splits it over two pages — 12 use cases (plus Kent mentioned) on "artificial-intelligence-use" and 10 case studies on "artificial-intelligence-case"; neither shows a total or per-entry URLs, and the map/drop-down could not be read. The January 2025 evidence said 16. I recorded 18 distinct councils across both pages.
Strategic authorities: mayors verified from primary or serious sources for only five authorities (London, Greater Manchester (AP), Liverpool City Region, East Midlands, Hull and East Yorkshire). Parties and election dates were not verified for any except Greater Manchester (Labour, 30 July 2026). Constituent councils verified only for Hull and East Yorkshire. Websites not opened: authority sites recalled from training were refused. Wikipedia's "Strategic authority mayor" page was consulted as a pointer only (it lists Paul Bristow, Claire Ward, Andrea Jenkyns, Sadiq Khan, Luke Campbell, Steve Rotheram, Kim McGuinness, Oliver Coppard, Ben Houchen, Richard Parker, Helen Godwin, Tracy Brabin, David Skaith, and first mayoral elections for Cheshire and Warrington and Cumbria in 2027) — none of this is cited and all of it needs primary verification by the strategic-authority researcher.
Greater Lincolnshire's official name and type, and the foundation status of Cornwall, Devon and Torbay, Lancashire CCA and Cheshire and Warrington CA, rest on secondary (Centre for Cities) or incidental (MHCLG blog) mentions; no GOV.UK list of all strategic authorities with types was found. The 2026 Act's commencement for designation (s.8) and any designation orders were not opened.
Solace: no page on solace.org.uk was opened; its AI work is recorded only through the January 2025 joint evidence. Socitm's homepage and membership figures were not read on socitm.net (figures from the parliamentary evidence).
LGA AI survey 2025 update: publication date not on the page; "State of the sector" 2026 edition not found. The LGA's "AI in local government" research with the University of Birmingham (April 2026 PDF surfaced by search) was not opened.
Local Government Chronicle: no LGC article was surfaced within the search allowance, so no LGC reporting is included.
ICO: no council-specific AI guidance found; the hub says it suits all sectors. The "Public Sector AI" audit guidance named in the task was not found under that title.
LGA Annual Conference 2027 dates not found. Mayoral election dates for May 2027 not verified on a primary page.
Greater Manchester by-election result rests on an Associated Press wire copy (secondary); the GMCA and Electoral Commission pages were not opened.
The parliamentary inquiry to which evidence UAIG0036 was submitted is not named on the evidence page.
Search allowance: all 12 permitted searches were used; the hourly fetch allowance was exhausted once (12:27 to 13:00 UTC) and fetching stopped after about 50 further page loads in the second hour.

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