# AI Opportunities Action Plan

- **Record type**: Policy instrument
- **Jurisdiction**: United Kingdom
- **Instrument type**: National strategy
- **Status**: Adopted
- **Binding**: No — guidance, strategy or standard
- **Issuing body**: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- **Adopted**: 2025-01-13

## In brief

AI Opportunities Action Plan is a non-binding national strategy of the United Kingdom, issued by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. It was adopted on 13 January 2025. Scope is as set out in the official text linked below.

## Summary

The AI Opportunities Action Plan is an independent report by Matt Clifford commissioned by the government, containing 50 recommendations organised under three aims: laying foundations (compute, data, skills and regulation), driving AI adoption across the public and private sectors, and securing homegrown frontier AI capability. The government published a response accepting the recommendations and treats the plan as its roadmap for AI-led growth.

## Scope

Scope is as set out in the official text linked below. Issued by Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. Oversight: DSIT leads delivery across government; recommendations adopted via the government response. Stated purpose: Use AI to drive economic growth, public-service improvement and sovereign UK AI capability.

## Key dates

2025-01-13: Action Plan and government response published

## Notes on dates

Only the announcement or adoption date is recorded from the source; in-force and application dates are to be confirmed by a reviewer.

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-POL-0200 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0200; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/uk-ai-opportunities-action-plan
- **Official source**: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-opportunities-action-plan
- **Source document**: AI Opportunities Action Plan
- **Published by**: GOV.UK (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: high
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "AI Opportunities Action Plan" [AIPT-POL-0200, record version 1, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0200 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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