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Written Question
Video Games: Finance
Tuesday 8th July 2025

Asked by: Lord Taylor of Warwick (Non-affiliated - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the Games Growth Package on the games sector in the UK.

Answered by Baroness Twycross - Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)

The Government has made an internal assessment which shows an expected positive impact of the Games Growth Package. This was based on an independent evaluation of the UK Games Fund between 2022-2025, which will be published shortly, as well as information provided by Games London, industry reports and material gathered from stakeholder engagement.

A full, independent evaluation to assess the impact of the package will be commissioned in 2026/27, following the launch of this new funding.


Written Question
Business: Artificial Intelligence
Tuesday 8th July 2025

Asked by: Lord Taylor of Warwick (Non-affiliated - Life peer)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the adoption of artificial intelligence by business on economic growth.

Answered by Lord Livermore - Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)

The IMF estimates the adoption of AI across the economy could boost productivity by up to 1.5 percentage points a year, if we embrace it fully and safely.

The Technology Adoption review, an evidence review used to inform our Industrial Strategy, also found that AI was consistently raised by stakeholders across all sectors as the technology that could drive efficiency and growth, and the review identified the barriers limiting uptake of AI.

That is why the Government has committed to fully funding the AI Opportunities Action Plan, including adoption and skills packages that raise industry awareness of AI and ensure businesses across the growth-driving sectors address AI skills shortages.


Written Question
Diagnosis: Artificial Intelligence
Monday 7th July 2025

Asked by: Lord Taylor of Warwick (Non-affiliated - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the potential use of artificial intelligence technologies in providing healthcare diagnostics without the involvement of doctors.

Answered by Baroness Merron - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

Through the Artificial Intelligence in Health and Care Award, we have provided £113 million to test and evaluate artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in crucial areas, such as imaging and diagnostics. The Department is focusing the £21 million AI Diagnostic Fund on the deployment of technologies in key, high-demand areas such as chest X-rays and chest computed tomography scans to enable faster diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer in 12 imaging networks, which covers 67 out of a total of 137 acute and specialist trusts across all seven regions of England.

AI technologies are not designed to replace our National Health Service and care staff. Instead, they will augment human expertise by supporting healthcare staff with routine administrative tasks and clinical decision making. This will save staff time and allow them to spend more time with patients. AI diagnostic tools are to be used to support doctors, and their findings will be reviewed by clinicians before decisions are made.


Written Question
Artificial Intelligence: Weather
Monday 7th July 2025

Asked by: Lord Taylor of Warwick (Non-affiliated - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of how artificial intelligence can be used as an early warning system to predict harmful weather patterns.

Answered by Lord Vallance of Balham - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)

The Government is driving forward AI development and adoption through the AI Opportunities Action Plan.

AI-driven forecasting systems are being developed and assessed by the Met Office, including co-developing the FastNet AI weather model with the Alan Turing Institute.

The Met Office is assessing the potential of AI-based tools to support expert meteorologists in their assessment of severe weather events.

The Met Office is monitoring developments in this field world-wide.


Written Question
Financial Services: Advisory Services
Monday 7th July 2025

Asked by: Lord Taylor of Warwick (Non-affiliated - Life peer)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the increasing provision of unregulated financial advice, particularly through social media, financial influencers, and the use of artificial intelligence.

Answered by Lord Livermore - Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) Financial Lives Survey collects data on the sources of information that consumers are using to help with investments and pensions. The latest survey results show that 5.5% of UK adults accessed such information from social media in the year to May 2024. This proportion is higher for younger adults, rising to 9% of 18-24 year olds and 12% of 25-24 year olds. The FCA does not currently collect data on the use of artificial intelligence by consumers.

The provision of financial advice is an FCA-regulated activity and those who provide financial advice need to be authorised by the FCA and have the appropriate qualifications. The FCA can take action against firms or individuals who carry out regulated activity without authorisation. For example, the FCA recently led a global week of action against unlawful influencers resulting in over 650 take down requests on social media platforms in the UK.

The government is committed to ensuring that all consumers can access regulated and high-quality sources of advice and support. That is why together with the FCA, we are developing a new regime called targeted support. This will enable regulated financial services firms to provide more support to give people the confidence to invest and make more informed decisions about their pensions. In addition, the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) is supported by the government to provide a wide range of tools and guidance to help people manage money confidently at every stage of life.


Written Question
NHS: Cybersecurity
Thursday 3rd July 2025

Asked by: Lord Taylor of Warwick (Non-affiliated - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that the NHS has sufficient cyber security defences in place to protect systems.

Answered by Baroness Merron - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

In the past year we have invested £37.6 million across health and social care, building on the £338 million invested since 2017. Through our ambitious Cyber Improvement Programme, we are tackling the changing cyber risk head-on, expanding protection and services to better protect the health and care system.

The health and social care supply chain is large and complex. We have a dedicated workstream in the Cyber Improvement Programme that is focused on this particular risk, developing tools and processes to increase cyber assurance and resilience.

Published in May 2025, the cyber security supply chain charter is designed to support suppliers and their customers in reducing the likelihood and impact of a cyber incident. The eight statements contained within the charter are fundamental security measures that should be reasonably expected from suppliers to help secure their organisation.

In September 2024, the National Cyber Security Centre’s Cyber Assessment Framework was implemented into the Data Security and Protection Toolkit (DSPT) for large National Health Service organisations. This enables them to understand and manage their own cyber and information governance risks, while maintaining the high standards necessary to protect patients. Over 56,000 organisations completed a DSPT assessment for 2023/24. As of July 2024, 82% of NHS trusts, or 172 trusts, had met or exceeded the standard.

72% of adult social care providers are now compliant with the DSPT, and the Government funded Better Security, Better Care programme continues to support care providers to prioritise safety and security when handling the data of those drawing on care.

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology’s upcoming Cyber Security and Resilience Bill will help us address the evolving cyber threat to our supply chain. It will strengthen our defences and ensure that essential healthcare services are better protected.

Through the Cyber Operations division in NHS England, we are able to respond to the ever-changing threat landscape and monitor security threats to IT systems and networks. Cyber Operations provide a range of specialist services that help NHS organisations manage cyber risk, and these are delivered through a range of centrally funded products and services.

We work to ensure that patient data and information is stored in systems that are safe and secure. We do this by providing services, guidance, and support to health and care organisations.


Written Question
University of Edinburgh: Artificial Intelligence
Thursday 3rd July 2025

Asked by: Lord Taylor of Warwick (Non-affiliated - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the role the planned AI supercomputer at the University of Edinburgh will have in driving artificial intelligence innovation across the UK; and what is the proposed timescale for its deployment.

Answered by Lord Vallance of Balham - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)

As outlined in the AI Opportunities Action Plan, the Government committed to increase the UK’s AI compute capacity by twentyfold by 2030.

That is why we have committed £1 billion to deliver this expansion and up to a further £750m for a new national supercomputer at Edinburgh, which will replace the UK’s current leading scientific supercomputer ARCHER2. These commitments will position the UK as a leader in AI and high-performance computing, driving innovation and scientific discovery. It is important to note that exascale compute is not necessarily for AI and has many other uses.

The Department will now work closely with UKRI and the University of Edinburgh to deliver the new national supercomputer. We will provide updates in due course.


Written Question
Employment: Graduates
Thursday 3rd July 2025

Asked by: Lord Taylor of Warwick (Non-affiliated - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the number of graduate-level jobs currently available, and whether the increased use of artificial intelligence is affecting those employment opportunities.

Answered by Baroness Sherlock - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

Data from the Department for Education (Graduate labour market statistics, Calendar year 2024 - Explore education statistics - GOV.UK) shows that graduates aged 16-64 years old in 2024 in England continue to have high employment rates, which exceed the employment rates of non-graduates:

  • 87.6% of graduates are in employment – unchanged on 2023.
  • 90.0% of postgraduates are in employment – up 0.6 percentage points on 2023.
  • 68.0% of non-graduates are in employment – down 0.7 percentage points on 2023.

Graduates are also more likely than non-graduates to be in high-skilled work than non-graduates and the proportion of working-age graduates in high-skilled work has increased on the year:

  • 67.9% of graduates were in high-skilled work – up 1.1 percentage points on the year.
  • 79.0% of postgraduates were in high-skilled work – up 0.2 percentage points on the year.
  • 23.7% of non-graduates were in high-skilled work – up 0.1 percentage points on the year.

This data also refers to people who are aged 16-64 years old in England in 2024. High-skilled employment is defined as being in Standard Occupational Classification 2020 major occupation groups 1-3.

The Office for National Statistics publish data on labour demand by occupation and how it is changing over time, which can be found here:

Labour demand volumes by Standard Occupation Classification (SOC 2020), UK - Office for National Statistics

Textkernel new online job adverts - Office for National Statistics

No current assessment has been made on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on graduate job opportunities.

The Department for Education has published research on the potential impact of AI on different occupations:

GOV.UK Impact of AI on UK jobs and training


Written Question
Energy: Prices
Thursday 3rd July 2025

Asked by: Lord Taylor of Warwick (Non-affiliated - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the current price of energy in the United Kingdom; and whether they plan to increase reliance on non-renewable energy sources as part of their future energy strategy.

Answered by Lord Wilson of Sedgefield - Lord in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)

The Government believes that our mission to deliver clean power by 2030 is the best way to break our dependence on global fossil fuel markets and protect billpayers permanently. The creation of Great British Energy will help us to harness clean energy and have less reliance on volatile international energy markets and help in our commitment to make Britain a clean energy superpower by 2030. This, combined with our Warm Homes Plan to upgrade millions of homes to make them warmer and cheaper to run is how we will drive down energy bills and make cold homes a thing of the past.


Written Question
Employment: Artificial Intelligence
Wednesday 2nd July 2025

Asked by: Lord Taylor of Warwick (Non-affiliated - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact on employment rates of the incorporation of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies by businesses, in particular agentic AI.

Answered by Lord Vallance of Balham - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)

We are working to harness the benefits that AI can bring in terms of productivity gains, rising living standards, and improved worker wellbeing; while mitigating the risks. Government is planning for a range of plausible outcomes and closely monitoring the data that will help us track and prepare for these. We will continue to work closely with other government departments through the AI Opportunities Action Plan to ensure we shape AI to deliver economic prosperity for the UK.