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HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: Vaccine TechnologyThe results from Cambridge and the DIOSynVax programme, primarily funded by the Government through Innovate UK, is a good example of how the Government are taking AI’s potential…09 Jul 2026HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: Vaccine TechnologyI completely agree that this technology is hugely important for the good it can do in making vaccines and new medicines. It will change our ability to treat and prevent diseases.…09 Jul 2026HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: Vaccine TechnologyI thank the noble Lord for his question. The point about the technology is that an enormous amount of good comes from it, and we must not forget that. But yes, there are risks,…09 Jul 2026HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: Vaccine TechnologyThe MHRA is one of the most important and best regulators in the world for medicines, and none of the requirements for an AI-assisted vaccine design is different from those for a…09 Jul 2026HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: Vaccine TechnologyAs the noble Lord says, the 100-day mission was endorsed at the 2021 G7, and I was very involved in that process. AI will be a critical part of how we do vaccines, therapeutics…09 Jul 2026HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: Vaccine TechnologyThis is a very hot topic of discussion. A lot is going on between nations and it is a big topic at the G7, where the UK is leading on some of these discussions.09 Jul 2026HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: Vaccine TechnologyPublic acceptance of vaccination is very high in this country, and that is built on trust, part of which comes from the regulator. The regulator in this country is extremely…09 Jul 2026HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: Vaccine TechnologyIn the UK there is a programme called Our Future Health, designed to enrol 5 million participants. It is very clearly designed to be an accurate representation of the UK…09 Jul 2026HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: Vaccine TechnologyObviously, the intellectual property that is being laid down as part of this process will belong to the university, the funder to some extent, and the company. The exploitation of…09 Jul 2026HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: Vaccine TechnologyThis is precisely why the Health Data Research Service is being set up: to make sure that we have a place where data can be collated properly and accessed in an appropriate way,…09 Jul 2026HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: Vaccine TechnologyI thank my noble friend for the question. That is largely a DHSC responsibility. DSIT makes sure that there is a real pipeline of new vaccines coming through, that the environment…09 Jul 2026HANSARDNuclear Safeguards (EU Exit and Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2026That the Grand Committee do consider the Nuclear Safeguards (EU Exit and Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2026.23 Jun 2026HANSARDNuclear Safeguards (EU Exit and Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2026My Lords, these draft regulations were laid before the House on 23 April 2026. I want to briefly outline the purpose of nuclear safeguards and explain the proposed amendments to…23 Jun 2026HANSARDNuclear Safeguards (EU Exit and Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2026I thank the noble Earl, Lord Russell, and the noble Lord, Lord Moynihan, for the support and the useful additional questions. I thank the noble Lord, Lord Moynihan, for his wish…23 Jun 2026HANSARDUK Biobank DataMy Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lords, Lord Markham and Lord Clement-Jones, for those responses and questions. The Government agree that this is unacceptable; it is an abuse…28 Apr 2026HANSARDUK Biobank DataI thank the noble Lord for his questions, and I echo his points about the Front-Bench spokesmen on the other side. It is very clear that everyone has the same intent here, which…28 Apr 2026HANSARDUK Biobank DataLet me thank the noble Lord, Lord Tarassenko, and his wife for participating in UK Biobank, because the whole thing depends on that. He is quite right that, before 2024, the data…28 Apr 2026HANSARDUK Biobank DataI thank my noble friend for the question. UK Biobank has identified the sites that were responsible for the leak. There were three institutions: the Second Xiangya Hospital,…28 Apr 2026HANSARDUK Biobank DataUK Biobank referred itself to the ICO, which was the entirely appropriate thing to do. The matter is now in the ICO’s hands.28 Apr 2026HANSARDUK Biobank DataThat last point is fundamental: we must have trust. If we do not get trust, we lose the ability to use what is an extraordinary resource, so that has to be part of what is looked…28 Apr 2026