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HANSARDArtificial Intelligence Opportunities Action PlanI can assure the right hon. Gentleman that Ministers are fully engaged in corresponding with Members across the House. Having been a Back Bencher for so long in opposition, I can…13 Jan 2025HANSARDArtificial Intelligence Opportunities Action PlanMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. He said, “if we choose to”. This Government do choose to, and that means engaging with the Education Secretary on the skills agenda, and being…13 Jan 2025HANSARDArtificial Intelligence Opportunities Action PlanWe put forward proposals as an entire package, which we are consulting on. The hon. Gentleman references one part of the package. If he looks at it as a whole, he will see that we…13 Jan 2025HANSARDArtificial Intelligence Opportunities Action PlanIt will not surprise the hon. Lady or the House to hear that I agree with championing Sussex. I went to the University of Sussex myself; I am an alumnus. Its AI research centre…13 Jan 2025HANSARDArtificial Intelligence Opportunities Action PlanI assure my hon. Friend that the communities that he refers to are at the front and centre of the way that we envisage using the power of Government to steer this technology for…13 Jan 2025HANSARDArtificial Intelligence Opportunities Action PlanMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. This technology is not going away. The choice this Government have made is not to sit on the sidelines, as the Conservative Government did for…13 Jan 2025HANSARDArtificial Intelligence Opportunities Action PlanI really look forward to Reading getting involved, and to it offering to partner with us. We want to get investment into great places like Reading, which has a lot of great small…13 Jan 2025HANSARDArtificial Intelligence Opportunities Action PlanI got to Northern Ireland as soon as I could after my appointment to this job. I have to correct the hon. and learned Gentleman on one point. We have attracted £24 billion of…13 Jan 2025HANSARDArtificial Intelligence Opportunities Action PlanI admire the way the Conservatives just push through with this. They did not commit a single penny to a single one of the projects that the hon. Gentleman mentions. They want all…13 Jan 2025HANSARDArtificial Intelligence Opportunities Action PlanMy hon. Friend could not be more right. Not only will AI improve the investment landscape for physical infrastructure but it will mean profound technological advances in all sorts…13 Jan 2025HANSARDArtificial Intelligence Opportunities Action PlanThe hon. Gentleman raises an incredibly important point. I assure him that we have a world-class defence industry in this country, world-class defensive capabilities in the…13 Jan 2025HANSARDArtificial Intelligence Opportunities Action PlanI am grateful to my hon. Friend for sharing that example from his constituency. In the coming weeks, we will release details of how local communities can get involved and apply to…13 Jan 2025HANSARDArtificial Intelligence Opportunities Action PlanI will make the basic point again, because I think the hon. Gentleman needs to hear it again: I could not cut something that did not exist. I have extended the life of the…13 Jan 2025HANSARDArtificial Intelligence Opportunities Action PlanI assure my hon. Friend that we are striving to ensure that innovation of all kinds is expedited. That is why I established the regulatory innovation office in the Department for…13 Jan 2025HANSARDArtificial Intelligence Opportunities Action PlanI am grateful for my hon. Friend’s very pertinent question. Investment is going into new sources of energy from investors around the world. I am really pleased that we have…13 Jan 2025HANSARDArtificial Intelligence Opportunities Action PlanI am always grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his contributions, and have enjoyed working with him in opposition and now in government. AI has enormous potential for the health…13 Jan 2025HANSARDNHS Diagnostic Processes: Technological InnovationMy Department is working incredibly closely with the Department of Health and Social Care, and the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and I are joined at the hip on…08 Jan 2025HANSARDMathematical Sciences AcademyI am grateful for my hon. Friend’s question. He is quite right to highlight that, finally, science and technology in this country has a Government on its side and putting their…08 Jan 2025HANSARDMathematical Sciences AcademyThe Government are committed to increasing the research and development allocation to a record £20.4 billion in 2024-25. Lord Vallance continues to meet mathematical science…08 Jan 2025HANSARDMathematical Sciences AcademyI have just explained all of the ways we are helping, assisting, supporting and driving mathematical science. The hon. Member has just listed all of the ways his party has failed…08 Jan 2025