House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee
UK House of Commons select committee scrutinising science, innovation and technology policy.
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Why did MPs single out a single US AI supplier as the UK's sovereignty risk?
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Published a report finding no coherent strategic framework for sovereign technology
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What did the UK sovereignty-gap report find?
Why did the committee cite Anthropic in its report?
Background
The Committee, chaired by Dame Chi Onwurah, published a report on 7 July finding the UK Government has "no coherent strategic framework" for sovereign technology and warning the UK "risks being cut off at whim", citing the US government's June order barring foreign access to Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models .
The Science, Innovation and Technology Committee is a cross-party House of Commons select committee, its scope aligned to the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), scrutinising government policy on Science, research, digital infrastructure and AI. Like all select committees it draws MPs from across parties in proportion to the Commons' composition and can summon ministers and officials to give evidence, though its reports carry no binding force on government.
The sovereignty-gap report lands alongside the same week's EU Chips Act approvals and the European Parliament's digital-euro vote, framing the UK's exposure to a single foreign AI supplier as a parallel case of the sovereignty question playing out across European tech policy more broadly.
