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HANSARDTopical QuestionsEvery donation that was made to this party in opposition has been declared in the appropriate ways. I am proud to be part of a party that raises standards in public life rather…16 Oct 2024HANSARDResearch and DevelopmentI am extremely grateful to my hon. Friend for her question, and I congratulate her, on behalf the whole House, on her election as Chair of the Select Committee—I look forward to…16 Oct 2024HANSARDResearch and DevelopmentOf course, I look forward to visiting Turbo Power Systems the next time I am in the region and seeing the amazing work it does. It is contributing to one of the key missions of…16 Oct 2024HANSARDRegulatory Innovation OfficeBritish innovators and businesses are developing world-leading products and services powered by technologies such as artificial intelligence. However, they often encounter…08 Oct 2024HANSARDTackling Global Challenges: R&D ProgrammeThe Department for Science, Innovation and Technology is focused on improving people’s lives by maximising the potential of research and development, science and technology to…07 Oct 2024HANSARD Technology in Public ServicesI beg to move, That this House has considered technology in public services. It is the first time I have had the privilege of speaking under your chairmanship, Madam Deputy…02 Sept 2024HANSARD Technology in Public ServicesI am grateful for that intervention and welcome the hon. Member to his place, too. The Government take extremely seriously the role that AI and digital technologies have in…02 Sept 2024HANSARD Technology in Public ServicesThe hon. Gentleman, who I welcome to his place, spent quite a bit of time on his intervention, but I realise that there is simply so much to talk about in his constituency. I pay…02 Sept 2024HANSARD Technology in Public ServicesI am grateful for the hon. Member’s intervention, which was his first on me in this Parliament; I doubt that it will be the last. I will come to digital exclusion a bit later in…02 Sept 2024HANSARD Technology in Public ServicesI am grateful for the question. The delivery functions of digital transformation have moved from the Cabinet Office and other Departments into DSIT. Governance of such services…02 Sept 2024HANSARD Technology in Public ServicesI am extremely grateful for that intervention; my hon. Friend makes an incredibly important point. First, on the broad themes of under-represented communities in the tech sector,…02 Sept 2024HANSARD Technology in Public ServicesI think the right hon. Gentleman pits productivity-enhancing tools against the interests of workers. I do not believe that is the case. If we take my example of Huddersfield…02 Sept 2024HANSARD Technology in Public ServicesIt will be a pleasure to give way to the hon. Gentleman, but I do not want to cut into the time for the maiden speeches that are coming up, so I will not take too many more…02 Sept 2024HANSARD Technology in Public ServicesI am grateful for the hon. Gentleman’s intervention. As I will say in a moment, all of this is contingent on one key principle: building trust with the public. We need to do so…02 Sept 2024HANSARD Technology in Public ServicesI am grateful. The interventions are building up, but I think I can answer both together to satisfy both Members. Yes, safety has to be built in at the outset and the public need…02 Sept 2024HANSARD Technology in Public ServicesI am afraid that I will not give way a third time, because others have to get in, and otherwise you will give me a glare, Madam Deputy Speaker—if the hon. Gentleman has not yet…02 Sept 2024HANSARD Technology in Public ServicesI am extremely grateful to my hon. Friend—it is fantastic to see him back in his seat, and we can see no better reason why when he makes such incisive contributions. I am in very…02 Sept 2024HANSARD Technology in Public ServicesI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his intervention and I welcome him to his place. It is good to see him participating in these debates. It gives me the opportunity to…02 Sept 2024HANSARD Technology in Public ServicesThe shadow Secretary of State said that the exascale project was fully costed. Could he confirm that it was fully funded too?02 Sept 2024HANSARD Technology in Public ServicesThe hon. Gentleman has said quite clearly that it was announced in the Budget, but it was contingent on a manifesto that had not even been written at the time of the Budget, in…02 Sept 2024