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🗣️ Speeches and Debates
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My Lords, I understand the need for proportionate regulation in this area, particularly because the UK already has considerable investment and wishes to see more investment in the future. But there is one area, superintelligent AI, where there is the potential for loss of control, particularly over defence and security systems, and where some legislation is required to prevent some of these...
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My Lords, I am sorry that the noble Lord did not give way, because I wanted to ask him this question. In his first sentence, he managed to speak to the amendment before us. He then went off on a tangent. In relation to impact assessment, has he, like me and many others, received hundreds of emails with countless papers and briefings about the implications of this clause? Did he observe the...
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My Lords, will the noble Lord kindly give way?
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My Lords, will my noble friend welcome the reopening of Kings Heath station, which was closed in the Second World War? It is a fully accessible station, and the first trains will go through it on 7 April.
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My Lords, my noble friend the Minister, very welcomely talked in her first response about widening access to treatment. My understanding is that NICE guidelines can be very tight for some of those treatments. As part of the work she has put forward, can my noble friend ask NICE to review its guidelines to make sure they are absolutely up to speed?
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Can I just go back to the point the noble Viscount raised a minute or two ago? He said that such investigations must be undertaken with great sensitivity. He referred to the investigation of rape cases. I put it to him that all experience shows that the police and, indeed, prosecution authorities sometimes find it very difficult to investigate such cases with sensitivity. How is he going to...
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My Lords, I endorse what my noble friend has said; I hope we all give this a great deal of support. Does he agree with me that it is a great pity that the pilot scheme abolished by the coalition Government in 2010 was not allowed to run? All the indications are that it was very popular with those who used it. On the point about the driving licence, as a non-driver and non-car owner, I resent...
More of Lord Hunt of Kings Heath's speeches and debates
✍️ Written Questions and Answers
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To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the performance of NHS North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board in (1) contracting dental practices for the provision of NHS dental services, and (2) ensuring that patients have comprehensive access to dental services.
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To ask His Majesty's Government what system is in place to ensure that integrated care boards are effective in contracting dental practices for the provision of NHS dental services.
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To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to produce a timetable for agreeing compensation for those harmed by pelvic mesh and the medicine valproate, as recommended in the report from the Patient Safety Commissioner, The Hughes Report: Options for redress for those harmed by valproate and pelvic mesh, published on 7 February.
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To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to secure supplies of medicines, medical devices and medical consumables in the case of war or pandemic; and whether those steps include building and maintaining strategic reserves of those supplies.
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To ask His Majesty's Government how many times confidential health records from the UK Biobank project have been removed from the internet (1) where UK Biobank requested that the researcher do so, and (2) where UK Biobank did so itself.
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To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of how many times confidential health records from the UK Biobank project have been exposed online.
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To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the risk of UK Biobank participants being identified from information exposed online, whether through (1) the inclusion of their names and addresses or (2) through cross-referencing and the use of AI tools.
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To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the exposure online of confidential health records from the UK Biobank project, as reported in The Guardian on 14 March.
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