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HANSARDAI Opportunities Action PlanThe interaction between the public and private sectors is crucial in this, as it is in many other areas. UKRI is leading a number of public programmes which support universities…05 Jun 2025HANSARDAI Opportunities Action PlanThe Government are taking action to capitalise on AI’s potential and welcomed the publication of the AI Opportunities Action Plan , accepting all 50 recommendations.…05 Jun 2025HANSARDAI Opportunities Action PlanOddly enough, I am aware of how difficult this is and how much work is needed. The requirements range from data to the ability to get it into a form that can be read and be…05 Jun 2025HANSARDAI Opportunities Action PlanA series of funded programmes have been looking at the introduction of AI in government in particular. Some reports were published in the last couple of weeks showing time savings…05 Jun 2025HANSARDAI Opportunities Action PlanAI sovereignty is a crucial issue. It ranges from questions of what infrastructure and companies we need in this country to what public work we need to do to make sure that we can…05 Jun 2025HANSARDAI Opportunities Action PlanThis is an area close to my heart. It is a crucial part of stimulating innovation right across the patch. Government procurement ought to be a way in which innovation companies…05 Jun 2025HANSARDAI Opportunities Action PlanAs the noble Lord points out, there has been a decrease in PhD funding through UKRI from 2018 to 2022. The overall number of PhD students has not gone down, but the sources of…05 Jun 2025HANSARDScience and Innovation: Alan Turing InstituteMy Lords, the Government are protecting record levels of R&D investment, with £20.4 billion allocated in 2025-26. Through UKRI and other mechanisms, we are supporting science…19 May 2025HANSARDScience and Innovation: Alan Turing InstituteMy noble friend is quite right that clinical trials are of huge importance and benefit healthcare just from the very fact that they take place in the healthcare system,…19 May 2025HANSARDScience and Innovation: Alan Turing InstituteThe Alan Turing Institute was set up by six universities and now has some 65 university partners. The 2023 quinquennial review identified a number of governance and programme…19 May 2025HANSARDScience and Innovation: Alan Turing InstituteI thank the noble Baroness for her very important question. She may be aware that the final thing I did before leaving my job as the Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser was to…19 May 2025HANSARDScience and Innovation: Alan Turing InstituteI thank the noble Baroness. I wonder whether she read the piece I wrote, which said something very similar. I agree entirely that this has to be inclusive innovation and that it…19 May 2025HANSARDScience and Innovation: Alan Turing InstituteI agree that those areas are important. They are, of course, part of the system, including other matters such as procurement of innovation and the skills we need. On the…19 May 2025HANSARDScience and Innovation: Alan Turing InstituteI thank the noble Lord. The Alan Turing Institute is indeed an independent charity, but it receives funding from the Government. Indeed, from 2024-29 it will receive £20 million a…19 May 2025HANSARDScience and Innovation: Alan Turing InstituteThe Alan Turing Institute now has four main themes—health, environment, defence and security, and fundamental AI—but it also has the Centre for Emerging Technology and Security…19 May 2025HANSARDScientists: Working in the United KingdomI thank my noble friend. He is quite right; there are a number of schemes from charities and, indeed, as I have said, from the academies. Over £200 million of funding goes to the…13 May 2025HANSARDScientists: Working in the United KingdomI reiterate the point I made: it is very important that we make schemes available to people from all over the world; it is not about targeting a specific country. We will do so,…13 May 2025HANSARDScientists: Working in the United KingdomAn estimated 17% of R&D workers in the UK in 2023 were non-UK. In that year, 7% were EU nationals and 10% were non-EU. In the university sector, about 37% at the top research and…13 May 2025HANSARDScientists: Working in the United KingdomThe UK has a world-leading science base, supported by some of the top universities and research institutions, and offers prestigious fellowships and professorships through UKRI…13 May 2025HANSARDScientists: Working in the United KingdomI thank my noble friend. We have always been the beneficiaries of brain gain; we have been attractive to top-class overseas researchers for many years. Indeed, about one-third of…13 May 2025