Speeches by Darlington.

“Medical testing of the BRCA1 gene is effective, but polygenic risk factors mean that if someone has a combination of genes, they might be more at risk of breast cancer. Does my hon. Friend think we should be rolling out polygenic risk testing so that, with a better understanding of their genes, women know how often the…”

“My hon. Friend is making a powerful speech, as have all hon. Members who have spoken today. I am lucky never to have had an abortion, but I have had two miscarriages, and I cannot tell you how vulnerable I was at that time. Anybody coming up to me at that point would have made me feel even more terrible than I already …”

“I thank the hon. Member for her powerful speech and for reminding us about the mothers who are absolutely traumatised; often, they have other children, who are also traumatised. The tactics being used by the police are increasingly worrying, and I wonder whether the hon. Member shares my worry that the escalation we ha…”

“I completely agree that we need to be respectful in this debate as people hold views on all sides. But does the hon. Member agree with me that when we criminalise women, their bodies and abortions, we get absolutely mad circumstances as we have seen in the US, where a woman cannot be saved in the emergency room or in A…”

“I thank all those who signed the petition to make sure that we had this debate. Is my hon. and learned Friend aware that more than 200 women have been investigated for this? Does he agree that some of the police tactics used—crime scene tape, excluding families from their own homes, and removing children even in cases …”

“And fashion. In fact, AI is a poor copy of what my hon. Friend represents and bring.”

“Despite what the shadow Justice Secretary has said about this scheme putting domestic abusers and rapists out on the streets, can the Justice Secretary cut through the rhetoric and fearmongering from the Opposition and be clear that she has put the victims of sexual and domestic abuse at the heart of these measures? Ca…”

“I thank my right hon. Friend for the way in which he is comprehensively showing our commitment to the creative industries. Like him, I am a huge nerd when it comes to amazing new innovations in data and AI. I am hugely enthusiastic about them, but I also share his equally huge enthusiasm for the creative industries. I …”

“Does the hon. Member agree that what that quote proves is that AI cannot capture the wit and humour that my hon. Friend the Member for Rhondda and Ogmore (Chris Bryant) brings to this Chamber?”

“I just want to move it on a little, not just to the algorithms themselves, but to the use of AI both in content moderation and in informing the algorithms. We are aware that they are currently very good at identifying women’s health advice and taking it down, having used certain terms. Jacob, what role do you think the…”

“Dr Regehr, I saw you react to that question. Did you want to contribute?”

“I wanted to go on and talk a little more about algorithms. We have talked a bit about what algorithms are and what they are currently doing. Safety by design is part of the Online Safety Act, yet how do you monitor safety by design if there is a lack of transparency in the algorithms of the social media companies? What…”

“It makes me think a lot about what we are doing with some programmes around anti-gang, anti-knife violence and stopping reoffending. We have this big brother situation in prisons; we have programmes that have seemed successful. From what you know about those programmes, do you think an approach like that, which focuses…”

“Do you think algorithms are doing enough to disrupt some activity that we see, some harassment within the manosphere: the pile-ons, the doxing, and others? I tweeted on behalf of the victims of Andrew Tate in the UK calling for their extradition back into the UK to answer to the allegations that had been made by women …”

“Fantastic. The social media platforms are still hosting content promoting misogyny. As you said, there is always a difficult legal line around what is freedom of speech versus what is illegal in terms of incitement or promotion of activity. Dr Lisa, why are they still getting away with it, and what should be the Govern…”

“What does my hon. Friend say to a police and crime commissioner, such as the one for Thames valley, who does not fund sexual abuse support services in Milton Keynes?”

“It never ceases to surprise me how little the Opposition understand about making trade deals. Perhaps that is why they never made a good one. We do not need to explain that to the 19,000 small and medium-sized enterprises in my constituency; they have been choked by the red tape agreed by the Conservatives. Those busin…”

“Will the hon. Lady give way?”

“Given the time limit, I first want to say a huge thank you to the Victims Minister, my hon. Friend the Member for Pontypridd (Alex Davies-Jones), and to the Solicitor General, who are ably supported by our amazing female team at the Home Office. I will not go through everything that is fantastic about the Bill, which i…”

“My hon. Friend is absolutely right. It is through such programmes that we developed the expertise and the ability to rapidly create mRNA-based vaccines, which led to the creation of our own vaccines here in the UK and allowed us not only to protect our own population but to contribute to protecting biosecurity globally…”