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"Answers questions about using AI at Defra, using only the Defra AI digital toolkit, with links to the guidance each answer came from."
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- Owner: DEFRA
- Vendor: Anthropic made the model. Amazon Bedrock runs it in the AWS London region. GOV.UK Notify sends problem reports by email. Defra built everything else: the pages, the instructions to the model, the checks and the tests
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- Model architecture
- Model performance benchmarks
- Training data provenance
Who is actually being paid
Anthropic made the model. Amazon Bedrock runs it in the AWS London region. GOV.UK Notify sends problem reports by email. Defra built everything else: the pages, the instructions to the model, the checks and the tests
Role
Anthropic made the model. Amazon Bedrock runs it in the AWS London region. GOV.UK Notify sends problem reports by email. Defra built everything else: the pages, the instructions to the model, the checks and the tests.
Procurement procedure
AWS processes the questions and answers to run the model, under Defra’s AWS contract, the AWS service terms and the Amazon Bedrock third-party model terms. According to Amazon’s documentation, model makers such as Anthropic cannot see prompts or answers sent through Bedrock. GOV.UK Notify receives a problem report only when someone chooses to send one, and keeps its copy of the email for 7 days.
Data access terms
AWS processes the questions and answers to run the model, under Defra’s AWS contract, the AWS service terms and the Amazon Bedrock third-party model terms. According to Amazon’s documentation, model makers such as Anthropic cannot see prompts or answers sent through Bedrock. GOV.UK Notify receives a problem report only when someone chooses to send one, and keeps its copy of the email for 7 days.
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Source: ATRS record · last updated Tue Oct 27 2026