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Written Question
Department of Health and Social Care: Artificial Intelligence
Monday 19th June 2023

Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Government's publication A pro-innovation approach to AI regulation, published on 29 March 2023, how much and what proportion of the budget of each regulator in their Department was spent on regulation of artificial intelligence in the latest period for which information is available; how many staff in each regulator worked (a) wholly and (b) partly on those issues in the latest period for which information is available; and whether those regulators plan to increase resources for their work on artificial intelligence.

Answered by Will Quince

Through the NHS AI Lab programme, the Department has provided £11,774,263.82 of funding to regulatory and evaluator organisations to streamline regulation to make it easier for the health and care system to deploy safe AI technologies as well as improving the route for AI vendors into the system, including funding for:

- A regulatory taskforce of four people from the main regulators overseeing how AI products in health and are regulated;

- The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), Health Regulation Authority (HRA) and Care Quality Commission to create an AI and Digital regulations service;

- The HRA to streamline data driven research to simplify the approach to accessing research consent and increasing awareness of where such consent is needed amongst researchers and innovators;

- The MHRA to explore the potential of synthetic data for the training and the validation of AI;

- The MHRA to enhance the ‘post-market surveillance’ of healthcare products, by transforming the Yellow Card system; and

- The MHRA for the AI Rigour project to develop a suite of guidance to help standard practices for the development of AI-driven technologies that will increase the safety and robustness of AI models.

As part of the AI regulation White Paper consultation, we are engaging closely with regulators across the wider landscape and their sponsoring government departments to understand the organisational capacity they need to regulate AI effectively.

Written Question
Department of Health and Social Care: Iron and Steel
Monday 29th March 2021

Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the level of UK-produced steel procured by his Department and associated departmental public bodies and agencies in (a) 2019-20 and (b) 2020-21.

Answered by Edward Argar - Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

The Department does not frequently procure capital assets or other contracts that require the direct procurement of steel. The Department does not hold centrally any data on the procurement of steel in the National Health Service or its arm’s length bodies.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 20 Oct 2020
Covid-19 Update

"Thank you for squeezing me in, Mr Speaker. Can I say that it was not just the Mayor, but all the leaders and most of the MPs across Greater Manchester? We are a city united this evening, but should not any economic support package be based on need, not on …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 15 Oct 2020
Covid-19 Update

"I have just come off a call with Greater Manchester colleagues and the Minister for Care, the hon. Member for Faversham and Mid Kent (Helen Whately), about the moving of Greater Manchester into tier 3, which has been widely speculated about. There was unanimous fury on that call about the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 05 Oct 2020
Covid-19 Update

"I am reassured by the Secretary of State’s answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Withington (Jeff Smith) that Manchester will not be subject to further restrictions as a result of the contained outbreaks in halls of residence. However, Manchester residents have now been unable to see their …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 02 Jun 2020
Covid-19 Response

"No disrespect, Mr Speaker, but I would rather be in sunny Manchester today, being cautious and careful, than here. None the less, does the Secretary of State agree that public confidence is critical in this next phase of dealing with the virus? There is no doubt that confidence has plummeted …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 22 Apr 2020
Covid-19 Response

"At present, only patients actually admitted to hospital with symptoms are being swabbed, leaving many with presumed covid being discharged into the community. At the same time, only healthcare workers currently with symptoms are being offered tests. Should not the main priority now be to test all patients and all …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 18 Jun 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"24. The Secretary of State will know that in Greater Manchester we spend over £1 million a year on keeping and storing paper-based assessment records made in the early years by health visitors. Will he work with us to eradicate that cost and get the digital licences we need?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 17 Jun 2019
Listeria: Contaminated Sandwiches

"As the Secretary of State knows, two of the tragic deaths occurred at Manchester Royal Infirmary. Our hearts go out to the families. Nothing could be worse than going to hospital poorly and trying to get better, and then dying because of a sandwich provided by the hospital to aid …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 07 May 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"It was a magnificent and very important goal, Mr Speaker.

I would like to put it on record that my husband is an A&E consultant. The Secretary of State will know that one of the massive factors in gaps in rotas is that A&E doctors and other hospital doctors are …..."
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