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HANSARDOnline Safety Super-Complaints (Eligibility and Procedural Matters) Regulations 2025To pick up exactly where I left off, as with any regulatory mechanism, transparency is key to ensuring public trust and parliamentary accountability. We therefore urge the…15 Jul 2025HANSARDOnline Safety Super-Complaints (Eligibility and Procedural Matters) Regulations 2025My Lords, as we have heard, the purpose of the super-complaints mechanism is to allow eligible entities with expertise in online safety matters, such as civil society groups, to…15 Jul 2025HANSARDARIA: Scoping Our Planet ProgrammeMy Lords, when Ilan Gur recently and sadly announced that he intended to step down as CEO of ARIA, he said that his role was always intended to be time-bound. That being the case,…08 Jul 2025HANSARDData Centres: Energy and Water ConsumptionMy Lords, building on the question from the noble Baroness, now that the Government have renamed the AI Safety Institute as the AI Security Institute, can the Minister confirm…08 Jul 2025HANSARDAI and Creative Technologies (Communications and Digital Committee Report)My Lords, I declare my interests in early-stage technology ventures as set out in the register. I thank my noble friend Lady Stowell of Beeston for securing and leading this…13 Jun 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, as everybody has said, it is deeply disappointing that we once again find ourselves in this position. The noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, has brought the concerns of…11 Jun 2025HANSARDAI Opportunities Action PlanMy Lords, I declare my tech interests as set out in the register. We welcome the GDS report, to which the Minister referred, on driving tactical productivity improvements in the…05 Jun 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, given where we are, I will speak very briefly, but I will make just two points. First, I think it is worth saying that the uncertainty surrounding where we are with AI…04 Jun 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, as this is the third round of ping-pong, as many noble Lords have observed, I will speak very briefly. If the noble Baroness the Minister has not by now understood how…02 Jun 2025HANSARDOnline Harms: Young PeopleMy Lords, I very much hope the Government are actively tracking and measuring the effects of schools’ own policies on mobile phone use during the school day. If so, what…21 May 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, it is probably redundant to pay tribute to the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, for her tenacity and determination to get to a workable solution on this, because it speaks…19 May 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have contributed to this important debate. I will first speak to the issues around accurate recording of sex data before coming on to talk…19 May 2025HANSARDScientists: Working in the United KingdomMy Lords, whether they are homegrown or imported, it is clear we are increasingly going to need more researchers in this country. Equally increasingly, we are competing…13 May 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]A little time has elapsed since the original debate, but I beg leave to test the opinion of the House.12 May 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]I thank the Minister for her full and detailed answer. Having heard the tone of the debate, I think it is clear that the focus and energy of the House are more on the amendment…12 May 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]52A: Leave out from “House” to end and insert “do disagree with the Commons in their Amendment 52, and do propose Amendments 52B and 52C to the words so restored to the Bill—12 May 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]I thank the Minister for his very able summing up of his position, but I am afraid I cannot get past the question in my mind of how existing legacy data, even if it is managed by…12 May 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]Moved by 32A: Leave out from “House” to end and insert “do disagree with the Commons in their Amendment 32, and do propose Amendments 32B and 32C to the words so restored to the…12 May 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, I first thank the Minister for his—as ever—clear and compelling remarks. I thank all noble Lords who have been working in a collegiate, collaborative fashion to find a…12 May 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]12 May 2025