Apr. 25 2024
Source Page: Letter dated 02/04/2024 from Baroness Vere of Norbiton to Peers regarding questions raised during the Spring Budget debate. 8p.Found: purse, will work with Quantexa, a UK company, to use new data and cutting edge technology, including Artificial
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1: Lord Kamall (Con - Life peer) Given that there are many concerns about data bias and algorithm bias in artificial intelligence, what - Speech Link
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1: Oliver Dowden (Con - Hertsmere) We are working through our intelligence agencies and the National Cyber Security Centre to continuously - Speech Link
2: Oliver Dowden (Con - Hertsmere) previous elections, and we have to take into account deepfake capabilities, particularly enhanced by artificial - Speech Link
3: Alex Burghart (Con - Brentwood and Ongar) Extremely distinguished names from the world of artificial intelligence and the creative industries were - Speech Link
4: Oliver Dowden (Con - Hertsmere) Those reports help us to gather intelligence on the nature of those threats and to work with victims - Speech Link
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1: Sarah Dyke (LD - Somerton and Frome) than the coronavirus pandemic or future pandemics, terrorism, economic collapse, natural disasters or artificial - Speech Link
Found: other digital technology, program, platform or application, including those which utilise artificial
Asked by: Anum Qaisar (Scottish National Party - Airdrie and Shotts)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether any UK-based artificial intelligence companies have export licenses to Israel.
Answered by Alan Mak - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade) (jointly with the Cabinet Office)
We continue to monitor the situation in Israel and Gaza closely. The UK has not granted any export licences to UK-based AI companies to export to Israel.
All export licence applications are assessed on a case-by-case basis against the Strategic Export Licensing Criteria. The UK operates one of the most robust and transparent export control regimes in the world.
Asked by: Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent steps she has taken to help increase engagement between employers and further education colleges.
Answered by Luke Hall - Minister of State (Education)
The department wants providers to continue to offer high-quality, relevant provision and to build upon the already fantastic work they do in partnership with local employers. The coming decade will see substantial economic change and as the economy changes, so will the skills needs of learners and employers. The department recognises that this will play out in different ways across the country and that is why the department introduced Local Skills Improvement Plans (LSIPs) to support local innovation and growth so that every part of the country can succeed in its own unique way.
The department is delighted that across all areas of England, employer-led LSIPs have already helped engage thousands of local businesses and have brought them together with local providers and stakeholders to collaboratively agree and deliver actions to address local skills needs. By building locally owned LSIPs from the ground up, the department is reshaping the skills system to better support people to train for, and succeed in, their local labour market.
The department welcomes the excellent engagement currently taking place between the designated employer representative bodies (ERBs) leading the LSIPs and local providers of technical education and training. It has meant that in summer 2023, all 38 areas of England published a plan, which was approved by the Secretary of State for Education, setting out local skills priorities and actions across the next three years. Moving forward, the ERBs leading the implementation and review of the LSIPs are continuing to work closely with local providers and stakeholders to deliver the priority actions set out in the LSIPs. Indeed, each ERB will provide a public annual progress report in June 2024 and 2025 setting out progress made since publication of the LSIPs.
LSIPs are working alongside the department’s wider reforms to further education (FE) funding and accountability, enabling a step change in how FE provision meets local skills needs. To help ensure the success of the programme, and as part of this government’s commitment to continue to invest significantly into FE, the department provided a dedicated £165 million Local Skills Improvement Fund (LSIF) to support providers to work collaboratively to respond to the needs identified in the LSIPs.
Provider projects the department is funding through the LSIF include training to plug key skills gaps in digital, net zero and green, construction, artificial intelligence and health and social care, all of which were identified as priorities by employers through the LSIPs.
Together, LSIPS and the LSIF are galvanising and bringing employers and providers closer together to spread opportunity for young people, skills for businesses and growth for all areas of this country.
Written Evidence Apr. 24 2024
Inquiry: Preterm BirthFound: variables into these biomarkers may facilitate the development of high-value predictive models based on artificial
Correspondence Apr. 24 2024
Committee: Women and Equalities CommitteeFound: platform, LinkedIn takes a multidimensional approach to protecting its ecosys tem, including the use of artificial
Written Evidence Apr. 24 2024
Inquiry: UK-EU data adequacyFound: would you assess the possible impact of proposed UK rules on automated decisionmaking and the use of Artificial