Minister of State (Minister for Artificial Intelligence)
The Rt Hon Kanishka Narayan MP
Biography
Kanishka Narayan was appointed Minister of State (Minister for Artificial Intelligence) jointly in the Cabinet Office and the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade on 20 July 2026.
He was previously Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology from 7 September 2025 to 20 July 2026. He was elected as the MP for Vale of Glamorgan in July 2024.
Minister of State (Minister for Artificial Intelligence)
The minister is responsible for:
- AI policy
- data infrastructure
- AI Growth Zones
- UK AI research resource
- AI for science
- robotics
- semiconductors
- Sovereign AI
- AI innovation and economy-wide adoption
Cabinet Office portfolio:
- AI Strategy
- AI Taskforce
- AI Security Institute
- AI Economics Institute (with HM Treasury)
- public sector adoption
Cabinet Office and Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade