Artificial Intelligence: Creative Content

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay Excerpts

Thursday 15th May 2025 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Twycross (Lab)]

My Lords, I am not treating anybody like a fool, and nor are the Government. We want to get this right and to make AI work for everyone. We are 100% clear that creatives and the creative sector should be properly rewarded. We need to get it right. While I understand that noble Lords want to use the vehicle of the legislation that is going through the House currently to lever in procedure, process and policy now, we want to get this right. We will revert to Parliament in due course on the result of the consultation.

[Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con)]

My Lords, on Monday your Lordships’ House voted by a majority of nearly 150 to stand up for the rights and intellectual property of people working in our creative industries. The Minister will have heard the great dismay from across your Lordships’ House about the way the Creative Industries Minister in another place is hiding behind parliamentary procedure to drag his feet while this theft continues from our creative businesses. Does she think this is an acceptable way to treat not just this House of Parliament but the creative businesses which contribute more to our economy than the automotive, aerospace, life sciences and oil and gas sectors combined? Will she please take this frustration back to her colleagues and urge them to engage more faithfully before the Bill returns to your Lordships’ House on Monday?

[Baroness Twycross (Lab)]

My Lords, I cannot emphasise enough that all Lords in your Lordships’ House need to respect the primacy of the Commons in relation to financial privilege.