Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Oral Answers to Questions

Joe Robertson Excerpts
Monday 15th September 2025

(3 weeks, 2 days ago)

Commons Chamber
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Dan Jarvis Portrait Dan Jarvis
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My hon. Friend is right to raise this. New and emerging artificial intelligence technology has the potential to amplify threats to democracy, including through hyper-realistic bots, which are used to spread disinformation and misinformation at speed. The Government are absolutely committed to addressing the threats, including by ensuring that social media platforms have the right systems in place to identify and tackle harmful material that breaches their terms of service.

Joe Robertson Portrait Joe Robertson (Isle of Wight East) (Con)
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T4. The Attorney General has claimed that we need the European convention on human rights and the European Court to solve the illegal migration crisis—an extraordinary claim. Will the Minister please explain, therefore, how Australia managed to tackle its migration problems and how the US is managing to implement our Rwanda plan, all outside the European convention that the Attorney General says we need?

Alex Norris Portrait The Minister for Border Security and Asylum (Alex Norris)
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The hon. Gentleman heard the Home Secretary’s point on the convention, but it is clear that gimmicks such as Rwanda do not work—£700 million for merely four volunteers to go. What works is effective processing, quick decisions and quick removals. That is what we will get under this Government, and it is what we do not get from those who carp from the Opposition Benches.