Speeches by Darlington.

“I was just going to ask a quick question. What needs to happen technologically to have a licensing system that is still in the hands of the creator?”

“I was just going to ask a quick question. What needs to happen technologically to have a licensing system that is still in the hands of the creator?”

“That leads me on well to the next question. I am part of the Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme with the RAF. It has been really interesting to me to see the co-location of so many industrial partners on each of these sites in terms of development. There are key supply chains like microchips that people do not even know…”

“I am really conscious of time, Chair, so I will try to ask these questions quite quickly. They are concerned specifically with the MOD. Obviously, we have the strategic defence review coming. What has been your role in that? What is the role of R&D in that? Linking it with the defence futures work that has been done by…”

“I have a final question for balance. We asked this of the previous panel. You are the Government chief scientific adviser. When is the last time you saw the Prime Minister or members of the Cabinet? Do you feel that if you request to meet him or them you would get that meeting?”

“Picking up all those strands and bringing them together into that original question about building foresight, we have several different foresight activities within different Government Departments. How much do you think that those horizon-scanning insights get brought together and there is an understanding at Cabinet l…”

“Do you think Ministers are aware of some of these?”

“Just to close that off on the MOD, first, do you think Ministers properly understand some of those strategic risks in terms of supply chains and where you are getting materials and the opportunities? Secondly, in the strategic defence review, are we going to see some of this absolutely laid out? I know you say you sugg…”

“T7. Innovation lies at the heart of our five missions. I would like to ask the Minister about her reflections on seeing innovation when she visited Milton Keynes recently and how we can take it forward across the country.”

“I thank my hon. Friend for securing such an important debate and for making such a powerful speech. Does she agree that the visitation presumption, custody presumption and all these sorts of things that happen in family law courts are a continuing perpetration of the domestic abuse that the women and mothers were fleei…”

“I appreciate that the Act was amended in 2014, but our understanding of abuse has widened since then to encompass financial, emotional and coercive control—abuse is not limited to just physical violence. In the light of that, is it not time to review the law and change the definition of harm to the child to encompass t…”

“I appreciate you are not a BBC spokesperson. Chair, I think this is an issue we need to pick up because, as we keep hearing from witnesses, one of the things that happened during the riots is that essentially it gave credence to misinformation online. I have a question for Joe and Imran. All Governments have some kind …”

“Marianna, I would like to understand this. When misinformation goes from online portals into mainstream media, what is the responsibility of the mainstream media not to give air and credence to misinformation? We saw this in Southport, where mainstream media news sites were picking up from social media platforms certai…”

“What exactly is the Online Safety Act missing that we should be bringing in?”

“Marianna, that wasn’t my question. My question is what the responsibility of mainstream media is to fact-check before they spread the misinformation further, as we saw during the riots.”

“2. What the fiscal circumstances are that would allow official development assistance to return to 0.7% of gross national income.”

“I thank the Minister for protecting the level of ODA given the fiscal situation we inherited, but there are more wars going on in the world than at any time since world war two. Will he review the fiscal formula, which he and the Chancellor rightly voted against when put forward by the previous Government, put the ODA …”

“I welcome the Foreign Secretary’s statement on this 100-year partnership with such an important European ally. We absolutely understand how our futures are linked. I want to recognise the Ukrainian community in Milton Keynes, which has established the Sunflower school and held the first Holodomor memorial event. These …”

“First, I say happy birthday to the Secretary of State for tomorrow. I cannot think of a better birthday present than to give the people of Milton Keynes a new women’s and children’s hospital. We are a growing city, and nowhere is it more needed in terms of population per bed. Will he reassure my constituents that the m…”

“Isn’t its need also to promote the local economy?”