To match an exact phrase, use quotation marks around the search term. eg. "Parliamentary Estate". Use "OR" or "AND" as link words to form more complex queries.


View sample alert

Keep yourself up-to-date with the latest developments by exploring our subscription options to receive notifications direct to your inbox

Lords Chamber
NHS: Long-term Sustainability - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen (Non-affiliated - Life peer) It went on to highlight problems with unsuitable hardware and software, lack of integration and repetition - Speech Link
2: Baroness Murphy (XB - Life peer) Dentistry has died in the NHS, more or less, and the NHS is also dying, bit by bit. - Speech Link
3: Lord Allan of Hallam (LD - Life peer) Software engineers—my profession—are not the people to write this stuff, but a lot of the stuff we get - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Access to Redress Schemes - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Christopher Chope (Con - Christchurch) Robert Adley described fighting Tanya’s battle as fighting the NHS, which he described as being like“ - Speech Link
2: Christopher Chope (Con - Christchurch) was the situation in relation to the hapless individuals who were at the wrong end of that particular NHS - Speech Link
3: Kevan Jones (Lab - North Durham) I have a full set of documents, all the software and all the floppy disks from the early Capture cases - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Digital Skills and Careers - Tue 16 Apr 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lisa Cameron (Con - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow) I know that when I worked in the NHS, every time there was a digital change, I worried about whether - Speech Link
2: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) It also covers business software use and development; confidence with hardware, including mobile phones - Speech Link
3: Luke Hall (Con - Thornbury and Yate) algorithms or data representation.Digital T-levels are also supporting progression to occupations such as software - Speech Link
4: Luke Hall (Con - Thornbury and Yate) Only 15% of the UK’s programmers and software development professionals are female. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Committee stage - Wed 27 Mar 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) data is used by tens of thousands of UK businesses, including for delivery services and navigation software - Speech Link
2: None Reliable address data is important for navigation software, such as TomTom or Waze, and successful service - Speech Link
3: Lord Kamall (Con - Life peer) Can you imagine that same technology being used in the public sector, with a WYSIWYG on the fantastic NHS - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Artificial Intelligence (Regulation) Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Fri 22 Mar 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Lord Holmes of Richmond (Con - Life peer) We saw only yesterday the exciting early results from the NHS Grampian breast-screening AI programme. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (XB - Life peer) AI use is becoming widespread but across the NHS tends to be small-scale. - Speech Link
3: Lord Ranger of Northwood (Con - Life peer) Dollops of AI are available in everyday software programmes via chatbots and automated services. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill
2nd reading - Wed 20 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Paul Scully (Con - Sutton and Cheam) The central issue is often seen as a software failure. - Speech Link
2: Paul Scully (Con - Sutton and Cheam) He compares accidents in the NHS with accidents and near accidents in the airline industry. - Speech Link
3: Kevan Jones (Lab - North Durham) They might be machines, but their software and code are ever changing. - Speech Link
4: Kevan Jones (Lab - North Durham) As I understand it, it was software developed by the Post Office itself. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
National Insurance Contributions (Reduction in Rates) (No. 2) Bill
Committee of the whole House - Wed 13 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) Will he set out what conversations he has had with employers and payroll software developers about whether - Speech Link
2: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) They are putting less money into the NHS than they proposed in autumn 2022. - Speech Link
3: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) The Government are confident that the majority of software developers will be able to make changes to - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Automated Vehicles Bill [Lords]
2nd reading - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Mark Harper (Con - Forest of Dean) What happens subsequently, regarding whether the manufacturer, the software provider or whoever has to - Speech Link
2: Mark Harper (Con - Forest of Dean) On the specifics, this will be about making sure that the manufacturers—those who create the software - Speech Link
3: Matt Western (Lab - Warwick and Leamington) There was also a cost to the NHS of £2.4 billion. - Speech Link
4: Clive Efford (Lab - Eltham) At the heart of that scandal was Fujitsu, which tried to hide the glitches in its software. - Speech Link
5: Bill Esterson (Lab - Sefton Central) reduction in road incidents through the introduction of AV technology, which would in turn benefit the NHS - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Infrastructure Procurement - Mon 19 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Alex Burghart (Con - Brentwood and Ongar) infrastructure, with huge road and rail construction projects, but across public procurement from IT software - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Digital Exclusion (Communications and Digital Committee Report) - Thu 08 Feb 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Baroness Stowell of Beeston (Con - Life peer) It is about ensuring we do not create second-class citizens who cannot use online banking, NHS services - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho (XB - Life peer) Another, a founder of their business, sitting next door to me said, “I haven’t got any digital software - Speech Link
3: Lord Lipsey (Lab - Life peer) it—it can easily be 5% of the wages of somebody at the lower end of the scale.If we did not have an NHS - Speech Link
4: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) apprenticeships are in a wide range of occupations and emerging technologies, including data scientist, software - Speech Link