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HANSARD UK-India Technology Security InitiativeI thank the hon. Member for his question. We must take those considerations really seriously, and they are absolutely part of a wide-ranging conversation that we have with all our…28 Apr 2026HANSARD UK-India Technology Security InitiativeI absolutely agree. One of the things I took back to my constituency was about how I engage with schoolchildren and college students, but that point is much wider; we should be…28 Apr 2026HANSARD UK-India Technology Security InitiativeI beg to move, That this House has considered the UK-India Technology Security Initiative. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Sir Alec. As a member of the Business…28 Apr 2026HANSARD UK-India Technology Security InitiativeWhen I was on the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee, we visited Queen’s and talked about its cyber-security prowess. The ecosystem in the UK is very much connected—something we…28 Apr 2026HANSARD UK-India Technology Security InitiativeI thank my hon. Friend, who accompanied me to India. It was a phenomenally insightful visit. The human connection is not incidental to this debate; it is the very foundation of…28 Apr 2026HANSARD UK-India Technology Security InitiativeAbsolutely. Building on that point, many of us who made that visit think we need to address the problem that too much of British public life is working with an image of India that…28 Apr 2026HANSARD UK-India Technology Security InitiativeI absolutely agree. One of the most exciting things about the UK-India partnership is the complementarity of our needs. To build on my hon. Friend’s point about that partnership…28 Apr 2026HANSARD UK-India Technology Security InitiativeAs ever, I agree with my hon. Friend. Specifically on the point about how we build our domestic capacity, there is something very exciting about the new £500 million investment in…28 Apr 2026HANSARD UK-India Technology Security InitiativeAbsolutely. All the officials we worked with were fantastic. The UK-India tech security initiative is the right framework at the right moment. It covers the technologies that will…28 Apr 2026HANSARDCancer Treatment13. What steps his Department is taking to support the treatment of cancer patients.14 Apr 2026HANSARDCancer TreatmentWeston-super-Mare is a growing, thriving town with a population comparable to the city of Bath, yet cancer patients regularly make a round trip of 90 minutes by car or more than…14 Apr 2026HANSARD CarnivalsThank you, Mrs Harris; it is an honour to serve under your chairship. I am grateful to the hon. Members for Glastonbury and Somerton (Sarah Dyke) and for Wells and Mendip Hills…12 Mar 2026HANSARD UK-based Tech CompaniesI held a roundtable in my constituency with the Startup Coalition just two weeks ago. We found that one of the biggest barriers was not an absence of talent or expertise in my…11 Mar 2026HANSARD UK-based Tech CompaniesI just want to pay tribute to a number of lecturers at the universities in Northern Ireland. I used to work for the British Computer Society and the Northern Ireland branch was…11 Mar 2026HANSARDBusiness of the HouseA very merry Christmas to you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and to everybody in this place. In a historic win against Chelmsford on 6 December—it is another football success…18 Dec 2025HANSARD Northwich Railway Station: AccessibilityMy hon. Friend points to a frustration shared by me and lots of campaigners in Weston-super-Mare, where we have seen missed opportunities over and over again to give people the…19 Nov 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseWeston-super-Mare and Worle residents are rightly proud of their community, but abandoned commercial waste and rubbish filling its once proud public spaces undermines our town and…30 Oct 2025HANSARD Ageing and End-of-life CareI thank the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) for securing this debate. It has been a pleasure to see his passion for his community and for the people of Northern Ireland,…30 Oct 2025HANSARD Connected and Automated VehiclesThe success of automated and autonomous vehicles will depend on infrastructure—not just roads but connectivity, data and mapping systems—but if the infrastructure is upgraded only…28 Oct 2025HANSARD Connected and Automated VehiclesAs my hon. Friend mentioned JLR, it is important to reflect on the necessity for cyber-resilience. Do she and the Minister agree that we cannot progress with such technologies…28 Oct 2025