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Publishes POSTnotes, POSTbriefs and horizon-scanning articles, including on AI (see GOV-PARL-061 to 066 and GOV-PARL-082 to 087). AI items since 2023 found: POSTbrief 57 (December 2023); POSTnotes 708 and 712 (January 2024), 735 (December 2024), 737 and 738 (January 2025), 743 (April 2025), 757 (December 2025), 762 (March 2026), 777 and 778 (August 2026); four AI horizon-scan articles (7 October 2024). POST's home page and full publications list could not be opened, so this list may be incomplete.","composition":"","parent":"UK Parliament (both Houses)","parent_research":"UK Parliament (both Houses)","relationships":"","notes":"Added or updated by Supplement 1 (edition 2.1).","checked":"2026-10-28","website":[],"sources":["https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/POST-PN-0777/POST-PN-0777.pdf","https://post.parliament.uk/research-briefings/post-pn-0757/","https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/artificial-intelligence/"],"source_quotes":[{"url":"https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/POST-PN-0777/POST-PN-0777.pdf","quotes":["post.parliament.uk POSTnote 777","Digital sovereignty is the agency and capacity a country or organisation has to shape, use and maintain the digital systems"],"accessed":"2026-10-28","secondary":false,"raw":""},{"url":"https://post.parliament.uk/research-briefings/post-pn-0757/","quotes":["Published Tuesday, 23 December, 2025"],"accessed":"2026-10-28","secondary":false,"raw":""},{"url":"https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/artificial-intelligence/","quotes":["PN-0757 Artificial intelligence (AI) and employment","PB-0057 Artificial Intelligence: An explainer"],"accessed":"2026-10-28","secondary":false,"raw":""}],"bucket":"unit","depts":[{"dept":"Department-wide","div":"department-wide"}],"colleges":[],"directorate":"POST","previous_parent":null,"parent_changed":null,"head":null,"established":null,"location":null,"money":null,"supplier_id_guess":null,"system":null,"rule":null,"topics":["education and skills","health and care","compute and infrastructure"],"confidence":"verified","confidence_raw":"verified","one_source":false,"as_of":"2026-10-28","rec_table":[],"ext_links":[],"link_texts":[{"kind":"related","target":"GOV-PARL-061","ids":["GOV-PARL-061"]},{"kind":"related","target":"GOV-PARL-066","ids":["GOV-PARL-066"]},{"kind":"related","target":"GOV-PARL-082","ids":["GOV-PARL-082"]},{"kind":"related","target":"GOV-PARL-083","ids":["GOV-PARL-083"]},{"kind":"related","target":"GOV-PARL-084","ids":["GOV-PARL-084"]},{"kind":"related","target":"GOV-PARL-085","ids":["GOV-PARL-085"]},{"kind":"related","target":"GOV-PARL-086","ids":["GOV-PARL-086"]},{"kind":"related","target":"GOV-PARL-087","ids":["GOV-PARL-087"]}],"div_label":"Department-wide","degree":8,"related_ids":["GOV-PARL-061","GOV-PARL-066","GOV-PARL-082","GOV-PARL-083","GOV-PARL-084","GOV-PARL-085","GOV-PARL-086","GOV-PARL-087"]},{"id":"GOV-PARL-061","name":"POSTnote 737 — \"AI and mental healthcare: opportunities and delivery considerations\"","type":"Rules and law","category":"POST","affiliation":"Group page (Commons, Lords, joint committees, bills, POST, APPG, NAO and PAC)","status_group":"current","status":"current — 2025-01-31","function":"POST briefing on how AI could be used in mental healthcare and what delivery needs. Published 31 January 2025; authors Hannah Gardiner and Natasha Mutebi.","composition":"","parent":"UK Parliament","parent_research":"UK Parliament","relationships":"","notes":"","checked":"2026-10-28","website":[],"sources":["https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/POST-PN-0737/POST-PN-0737.pdf"],"source_quotes":[{"url":"https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/POST-PN-0737/POST-PN-0737.pdf","quotes":["Mental healthcare provision in the UK faces rising demand and workforce capacity issues."],"accessed":"2026-10-28","secondary":false,"raw":""}],"bucket":"rule","depts":[{"dept":"Department-wide","div":"department-wide"}],"colleges":[],"directorate":"POST","previous_parent":null,"parent_changed":null,"head":null,"established":"2025-01-31","location":null,"money":null,"supplier_id_guess":null,"system":null,"rule":{"kind":"report","stage":"published","stage_date":"2025-01-31","sponsor":"POST","applies_to":"parliamentarians"},"topics":["health and care"],"confidence":"single_source","confidence_raw":"single_source","one_source":true,"as_of":"2026-10-28","rec_table":[],"ext_links":[],"link_texts":[{"kind":"related","target":"GOV-PARL-062","ids":["GOV-PARL-062"]}],"div_label":"Department-wide","degree":2,"related_ids":["GOV-PARL-060","GOV-PARL-062"]},{"id":"GOV-PARL-062","name":"POSTnote 738 — \"AI and mental healthcare: ethical and regulatory considerations\"","type":"Rules and law","category":"POST","affiliation":"Group page (Commons, Lords, joint committees, bills, POST, APPG, NAO and PAC)","status_group":"current","status":"current — 2025-01-31","function":"Companion POST briefing on ethical and regulatory questions for AI in mental healthcare. Published 31 January 2025; authors Hannah Gardiner and Natasha Mutebi.","composition":"","parent":"UK Parliament","parent_research":"UK Parliament","relationships":"","notes":"","checked":"2026-10-28","website":[],"sources":["https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/POST-PN-0738/POST-PN-0738.pdf"],"source_quotes":[{"url":"https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/POST-PN-0738/POST-PN-0738.pdf","quotes":["Stakeholders across academia, industry and healthcare have been exploring and experimenting with artificial intelligence"],"accessed":"2026-10-28","secondary":false,"raw":""}],"bucket":"rule","depts":[{"dept":"Department-wide","div":"department-wide"}],"colleges":[],"directorate":"POST","previous_parent":null,"parent_changed":null,"head":null,"established":"2025-01-31","location":null,"money":null,"supplier_id_guess":null,"system":null,"rule":{"kind":"report","stage":"published","stage_date":"2025-01-31","sponsor":"POST","applies_to":"parliamentarians"},"topics":["health and care","regulation and standards"],"confidence":"single_source","confidence_raw":"single_source","one_source":true,"as_of":"2026-10-28","rec_table":[],"ext_links":[],"link_texts":[{"kind":"related","target":"GOV-PARL-061","ids":["GOV-PARL-061"]}],"div_label":"Department-wide","degree":1,"related_ids":["GOV-PARL-061"]},{"id":"GOV-PARL-063","name":"POSTnote 743 — \"Digital Transformation in Government\"","type":"Rules and law","category":"POST","affiliation":"Group page (Commons, Lords, joint committees, bills, POST, APPG, NAO and PAC)","status_group":"current","status":"current — 2025-04-29","function":"POST briefing on digital transformation in government. Published 29 April 2025; authors Anneliese Hodge and Lydia Harriss. 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Published 16 March 2026; authors Alexander Williams and Simon Brawley.","composition":"","parent":"UK Parliament","parent_research":"UK Parliament","relationships":"","notes":"","checked":"2026-10-28","website":[],"sources":["https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/POST-PN-0762/POST-PN-0762.pdf"],"source_quotes":[{"url":"https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/POST-PN-0762/POST-PN-0762.pdf","quotes":["Data centres are buildings that contain the information technology equipment that most of the digital world relies on."],"accessed":"2026-10-28","secondary":false,"raw":""}],"bucket":"rule","depts":[{"dept":"Department-wide","div":"department-wide"}],"colleges":[],"directorate":"POST","previous_parent":null,"parent_changed":null,"head":null,"established":"2026-03-16","location":null,"money":null,"supplier_id_guess":null,"system":null,"rule":{"kind":"report","stage":"published","stage_date":"2026-03-16","sponsor":"POST","applies_to":"parliamentarians"},"topics":["compute and infrastructure","energy and climate"],"confidence":"single_source","confidence_raw":"single_source","one_source":true,"as_of":"2026-10-28","rec_table":[],"ext_links":[{"kind":"related","id":"GOV-PARL-027","name":"Environmental Audit Committee — \"Risks and opportunities to the sustainability of data centres in the UK\"","page":"parliament/commons-committees","href":"../../parliament/commons-committees/#org=GOV-PARL-027","page_label":"Commons committees"}],"link_texts":[{"kind":"related","target":"GOV-PARL-027","ids":["GOV-PARL-027"]}],"div_label":"Department-wide","degree":1,"related_ids":["GOV-PARL-084"]},{"id":"GOV-PARL-065","name":"POSTnote 777 — \"Digital sovereignty\"","type":"Rules and law","category":"POST","affiliation":"Group page (Commons, Lords, joint committees, bills, POST, APPG, NAO and PAC)","status_group":"current","status":"current — 2026-08-19","function":"POST briefing on digital sovereignty. Published 19 August 2026; authors Matthew Pay and Simon Brawley.","composition":"","parent":"UK Parliament","parent_research":"UK Parliament","relationships":"","notes":"","checked":"2026-10-28","website":[],"sources":["https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/POST-PN-0777/POST-PN-0777.pdf"],"source_quotes":[{"url":"https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/POST-PN-0777/POST-PN-0777.pdf","quotes":["Digital sovereignty is the agency and capacity a country or organisation has to shape, use and maintain the digital systems"],"accessed":"2026-10-28","secondary":false,"raw":""}],"bucket":"rule","depts":[{"dept":"Department-wide","div":"department-wide"}],"colleges":[],"directorate":"POST","previous_parent":null,"parent_changed":null,"head":null,"established":"2026-08-19","location":null,"money":null,"supplier_id_guess":null,"system":null,"rule":{"kind":"report","stage":"published","stage_date":"2026-08-19","sponsor":"POST","applies_to":"parliamentarians"},"topics":["compute and infrastructure","international cooperation"],"confidence":"single_source","confidence_raw":"single_source","one_source":true,"as_of":"2026-10-28","rec_table":[],"ext_links":[{"kind":"related","id":"GOV-PARL-006","name":"Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee — sovereign AI capabilities warning (7 July 2026)","page":"parliament/commons-committees","href":"../../parliament/commons-committees/#org=GOV-PARL-006","page_label":"Commons committees"}],"link_texts":[{"kind":"related","target":"GOV-PARL-006","ids":["GOV-PARL-006"]}],"div_label":"Department-wide","degree":0,"related_ids":[]},{"id":"GOV-PARL-066","name":"POSTnote 778 — \"The impacts of screen and AI use on children and young people\"","type":"Rules and law","category":"POST","affiliation":"Group page (Commons, Lords, joint committees, bills, POST, APPG, NAO and PAC)","status_group":"current","status":"current — 2026-08-20","function":"POST briefing on how screen and AI use affects children and young people. Published 20 August 2026; authors Merissa Elizabeth Hickman and Natasha Mutebi.","composition":"","parent":"UK Parliament","parent_research":"UK Parliament","relationships":"","notes":"","checked":"2026-10-28","website":[],"sources":["https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/POST-PN-0778/POST-PN-0778.pdf"],"source_quotes":[{"url":"https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/POST-PN-0778/POST-PN-0778.pdf","quotes":["Screen use encompasses a broad range of digital technologies and tools that are integrated into many aspects of children's"],"accessed":"2026-10-28","secondary":false,"raw":""}],"bucket":"rule","depts":[{"dept":"Department-wide","div":"department-wide"}],"colleges":[],"directorate":"POST","previous_parent":null,"parent_changed":null,"head":null,"established":"2026-08-20","location":null,"money":null,"supplier_id_guess":null,"system":null,"rule":{"kind":"report","stage":"published","stage_date":"2026-08-20","sponsor":"POST","applies_to":"parliamentarians"},"topics":["education and skills","online safety"],"confidence":"single_source","confidence_raw":"single_source","one_source":true,"as_of":"2026-10-28","rec_table":[],"ext_links":[{"kind":"related","id":"GOV-PARL-022","name":"Education Committee — \"The use of Artificial Intelligence and EdTech in Education\"","page":"parliament/commons-committees","href":"../../parliament/commons-committees/#org=GOV-PARL-022","page_label":"Commons committees"}],"link_texts":[{"kind":"related","target":"GOV-PARL-022","ids":["GOV-PARL-022"]}],"div_label":"Department-wide","degree":2,"related_ids":["GOV-PARL-060","GOV-PARL-083"]},{"id":"GOV-PARL-082","name":"POSTnote 708 — \"Policy implications of artificial intelligence (AI)\"","type":"Rules and law","category":"POST","affiliation":"Group page (Commons, Lords, joint committees, bills, POST, APPG, NAO and PAC)","status_group":"current","status":"current — 2024-01-09","function":"POST briefing giving an overview of the policy issues AI raises. Published 9 January 2024; authors Ansh Bhatnagar and Devyani Gajjar. DOI 10.58248/PN708.","composition":"","parent":"UK Parliament","parent_research":"UK Parliament","relationships":"","notes":"Added or updated by Supplement 1 (edition 2.1).","checked":"2026-10-28","website":[],"sources":["https://post.parliament.uk/research-briefings/post-pn-0708/","https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/artificial-intelligence/"],"source_quotes":[{"url":"https://post.parliament.uk/research-briefings/post-pn-0708/","quotes":["This POSTnote provides an overview of the potential policy issues that AI raises.","Published Tuesday, 09 January, 2024"],"accessed":"2026-10-28","secondary":false,"raw":""},{"url":"https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/artificial-intelligence/","quotes":["PN-0708 Policy implications of artificial intelligence (AI)"],"accessed":"2026-10-28","secondary":false,"raw":""}],"bucket":"rule","depts":[{"dept":"Department-wide","div":"department-wide"}],"colleges":[],"directorate":"POST","previous_parent":null,"parent_changed":null,"head":null,"established":"2024-01-09","location":null,"money":null,"supplier_id_guess":null,"system":null,"rule":{"kind":"report","stage":"published","stage_date":"2024-01-09","sponsor":"POST","applies_to":"parliamentarians"},"topics":["regulation and standards","safety and security"],"confidence":"verified","confidence_raw":"verified","one_source":false,"as_of":"2026-10-28","rec_table":[],"ext_links":[],"link_texts":[{"kind":"parent","target":"GOV-PARL-060","ids":["GOV-PARL-060"]},{"kind":"related","target":"GOV-PARL-083","ids":["GOV-PARL-083"]},{"kind":"related","target":"GOV-PARL-086","ids":["GOV-PARL-086"]}],"div_label":"Department-wide","degree":4,"related_ids":["GOV-PARL-060","GOV-PARL-083","GOV-PARL-086","GOV-PARL-087"]},{"id":"GOV-PARL-083","name":"POSTnote 712 — \"Use of artificial intelligence in education delivery and assessment\"","type":"Rules and law","category":"POST","affiliation":"Group page (Commons, Lords, joint committees, bills, POST, APPG, NAO and PAC)","status_group":"current","status":"current — 2024-01-23","function":"POST briefing on how AI can be used to deliver and assess education. Published 23 January 2024; authors Juri Felix and Laura Webb.","composition":"","parent":"UK Parliament","parent_research":"UK Parliament","relationships":"","notes":"Added or updated by Supplement 1 (edition 2.1).","checked":"2026-10-28","website":[],"sources":["https://post.parliament.uk/research-briefings/post-pn-0712/","https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/artificial-intelligence/"],"source_quotes":[{"url":"https://post.parliament.uk/research-briefings/post-pn-0712/","quotes":["Artificial intelligence technologies that can be used in education have developed rapidly in recent years.","Tuesday, 23 January, 2024"],"accessed":"2026-10-28","secondary":false,"raw":""},{"url":"https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/artificial-intelligence/","quotes":["PN-0712 Use of artificial intelligence in education delivery and assessment"],"accessed":"2026-10-28","secondary":false,"raw":""}],"bucket":"rule","depts":[{"dept":"Department-wide","div":"department-wide"}],"colleges":[],"directorate":"POST","previous_parent":null,"parent_changed":null,"head":null,"established":"2024-01-23","location":null,"money":null,"supplier_id_guess":null,"system":null,"rule":{"kind":"report","stage":"published","stage_date":"2024-01-23","sponsor":"POST","applies_to":"parliamentarians"},"topics":["education and skills"],"confidence":"verified","confidence_raw":"verified","one_source":false,"as_of":"2026-10-28","rec_table":[],"ext_links":[{"kind":"related","id":"GOV-PARL-022","name":"Education Committee — \"The use of Artificial Intelligence and EdTech in Education\"","page":"parliament/commons-committees","href":"../../parliament/commons-committees/#org=GOV-PARL-022","page_label":"Commons committees"}],"link_texts":[{"kind":"parent","target":"GOV-PARL-060","ids":["GOV-PARL-060"]},{"kind":"related","target":"GOV-PARL-022","ids":["GOV-PARL-022"]},{"kind":"related","target":"GOV-PARL-066","ids":["GOV-PARL-066"]}],"div_label":"Department-wide","degree":4,"related_ids":["GOV-PARL-060","GOV-PARL-066","GOV-PARL-082","GOV-PARL-087"]},{"id":"GOV-PARL-084","name":"POSTnote 735 — \"Energy security and AI\"","type":"Rules and law","category":"POST","affiliation":"Group page (Commons, Lords, joint committees, bills, POST, APPG, NAO and PAC)","status_group":"current","status":"current — 2024-12-10","function":"POST briefing on how AI and machine learning could be used for energy security. 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