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HANSARDGigabit Broadband: Rural AreasOnly this week, we announced a £289 million contract that will deliver gigabit-capable broadband to 131,000 difficult-to-reach premises across England and Wales. We are determined…08 Jan 2025HANSARD Copyright and Artificial IntelligenceI welcome the Chair of the Select Committee to her place. She is 100% right that we cannot have the text and data mining exemption for commercial purposes unless there is a proper…18 Dec 2024HANSARD Copyright and Artificial IntelligenceI completely agree with the hon. Lady. Of course those companies should pay for the content that they are using. I think she is referring to LAION-5B, which is the dataset that…18 Dec 2024HANSARD Copyright and Artificial IntelligenceI think that China is the problem in lots of different cases; I am not sure that it is in this case. It is more difficult for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for…18 Dec 2024HANSARD Copyright and Artificial IntelligenceI don’t think I am allowed to sing at the Dispatch Box.18 Dec 2024HANSARD Copyright and Artificial IntelligenceMy hon. Friend makes a very good point about “Gavin and Stacey”, and I look forward to the Christmas special. I would merely point out that, since H from Steps is from the…18 Dec 2024HANSARD Copyright and Artificial IntelligenceThank you very much, Madam Deputy Speaker. Fortunately, I asked ChatGPT what the shadow Minister would ask me and it was pretty much right—although some of the questions from…18 Dec 2024HANSARD Copyright and Artificial IntelligenceWell, some people have greatness thrust upon them. My hon. Friend makes an important point about data, which will become an increasing part of our economic resilience and strength…18 Dec 2024HANSARD Copyright and Artificial IntelligenceNo. 1: I will have endless meetings with an awful lot of people from the creative industries to ensure that all their concerns are recognised. I pay tribute to UK Music, which has…18 Dec 2024HANSARD Copyright and Artificial IntelligenceMy hon. Friend is 100% right. Squaring the circle is what we are in the business of doing, and sometimes that is not an easy thing for Government, because not all the levers lie…18 Dec 2024HANSARD Copyright and Artificial IntelligenceMadam Deputy Speaker, I will look at you to make sure that I do not go over time, but I would point out that “Wicked” is far too long a movie. I make it clear that I do not think…18 Dec 2024HANSARD Copyright and Artificial IntelligenceBoth sectors are part of our industrial strategy, and we must make sure that both are able to flourish. I fully understand that there will be people in the creative industries who…18 Dec 2024HANSARD Copyright and Artificial IntelligenceAgain, this is another false dichotomy being presented to us between opt in and opt out. That is why we have landed on the term “rights reservation”. A lot of the material out…18 Dec 2024HANSARD Copyright and Artificial IntelligenceI have been trying—perhaps I have not yet succeeded—to make it absolutely clear that I, the Secretaries of State for Culture, Media and Sport and for Science, Innovation and…18 Dec 2024HANSARD Copyright and Artificial IntelligenceAnd now for something completely different! With permission, Madam Deputy Speaker, I will make a statement regarding our launch of a public consultation on copyright and…18 Dec 2024HANSARD Copyright and Artificial IntelligenceI think my hon. Friend, who is on the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, took advantage of the change in the Chair to get away with asking a question that has absolutely nothing…18 Dec 2024HANSARD Copyright and Artificial IntelligenceI disagree. I saw the right hon. Gentleman nodding earlier when I was talking about not wanting to pull the rug from under the feet of UK AI adopters. The UK is in a very specific…18 Dec 2024HANSARD Copyright and Artificial IntelligenceWell, no. This is a genuinely thorny question that needs a technical solution. The Government are not going to write the technical solution. That has to come from the two sides…18 Dec 2024HANSARDAI and Copyright ConsultationThe fast-paced development of artificial intelligence (AI), and in particular the need for large volumes of data during training of large language models (LLMs), has led to…17 Dec 2024HANSARD Telegraph Poles: BirminghamIt is a great delight to sit under your chairpersonship, Ms Vaz. I warmly congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham Edgbaston (Preet Kaur Gill) on securing this…10 Dec 2024