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Speech in Grand Committee - Wed 18 Dec 2024
Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL]

"My Lords, I will speak in support of Amendment 203, which I have signed, and Amendments 211G and 211H in my noble friend Lady Owen’s name.

At Second Reading, the mood of the House was to consider and support the enormous opportunity that comes from AI and to acknowledge the …..."

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 13 Dec 2024
Non-Consensual Sexually Explicit Images and Videos (Offences) Bill [HL]

"My Lords, it is a great privilege to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Foster. Like her, I am optimistic about AI in the round, but deepfakes are a nasty little side hustle that a small group of perverts and criminals are using to make money out of the misery of …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 11 Dec 2024
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill

"My Lords, I thank very much the noble Baroness for her kind words on the hard work and diligence of hereditary Peers. I strongly support the sentiments she expressed about the gender inequality in the hereditary peerage. I ask her to support the succession to peerages and baronetcies Bill proposed …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 10 Dec 2024
Health: Quad-demic

"The Minister says that we are determined to learn the lessons of Covid. During Covid we had vaccination rates of 90% but, as she said, only 16 million—just 25%—of our citizens have had the flu jab and vaccination rates among children are also deteriorating at a rate. I say this …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 19 Nov 2024
Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL]

"My Lords, it is a privilege to follow the noble Lord, Lord Vaux. I agree with him completely that this is a better Bill. It is a real tribute to the Minister, and I thank her for how she introduced it.

I start with some good news. This Bill plugs …..."

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 02 Sep 2024
Vaping Products: Usage by Children

"The noble Lord, Lord Winston, may be right that vaping has been around for longer than we think, but the current boom came out of a deliberate exercise by two academics at Stanford University, Adam Bowen and James Monsees, in 2005, to find a medical technology that would give people …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 20 May 2024
Media Bill

"My Lords, it is a great honour to speak after the noble Lord, Lord Foster, who put the case for this group of amendments incredibly well. I do not want to go over the ground he has already covered, but I would just like to endorse three key points behind …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 10 May 2024
Zoological Society of London (Leases) Bill

"My Lords, it is a great privilege to follow the noble Lord, Lord Evans of Weardale. I completely endorse the argument that he made so well about the need for a long-term horizon for the zoo and for it be given the wherewithal to fulfil that vision. I thank my …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 18 Apr 2024
NHS: Long-term Sustainability

"My Lords, it is a great privilege to speak after the noble Baroness, Lady Warwick. I thank my good friend, the noble Lord, Lord Patel, for bringing about this important debate. I declare my interests as a research fellow on public health at the Milken Institute School of Public Health …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Mon 15 Apr 2024
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill

"The Minister mentioned prosecutions and legal redress in the UK from international data transfer breaches. Can he share some examples of that, maybe by letter? I am not aware of that being something with a long precedent...."
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