Speeches by Darlington.

“To push you a little further on that, does this present an opportunity for the UK to step forward on areas that quite clearly the new Administration are not comfortable with federal funding going into? Should we be looking at increasing the amount, maybe through MRC, to fill that void and take advantage of that opportu…”

“Specifically on the Ox-Cam growth corridor and your role now in being the champion for that, I would like to understand a little bit more about your vision for it. Do you see it as an Oxford and Cambridge or as an Oxford to Cambridge? What is the role for the towns and cities in between? Are they just to be dormitory, …”

“I can see how excited you are by that. We are all quite excited. How long do you think it will be before this is a universally offered service to people on the NHS in the context of moving to prevention, moving to early intervention and understanding more about our individual risks of particular diseases or cancers?”

“I have a really quick question. The Labour manifesto committed to a 10-year R&D settlement. Are we expecting the spending review to set out that 10-year settlement? What do you see as the benefits of a 10-year settlement for this area?”

“Does the Minister agree that, despite the Member for the Trump Government’s misrepresentations, the UK Government must provide their own independent global leadership based on UK values and UK interests to make a safer world, despite or because of the new US Administration’s changing foreign policy, including closing t…”

“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?”

“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…”

“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?”

“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…”

“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…”

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

“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…”

“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…”

“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?”

“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 …”

“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 …”