Speeches by Duncan-Jordan.

“I thank all Members for their contributions to an excellent debate that showed we need to have more of this discussion. I will make some very quick points. First, we need to act with speed, as I think was accepted by a number of Members. As the right hon. Member for South Holland and The Deepings (Sir John Hayes) menti…”

“I thank the hon. Gentleman for his second intervention—let us see whether he can make it a hat trick before I finish. The reality is that AI is here now. We have to deal with how it impacts on today’s workers and future workers as well. This is not one generation against another, and I know the hon. Gentleman understan…”

“I beg to move, That this House has considered Government policy on AI and its impact on society. It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Ms McVey. I think we all agree that AI is a transformational technology with the potential to bring many benefits to our society, but to fully realise them we will require th…”

“I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend’s point about no place being left behind as a result of the AI revolution. I will develop that point a later. We can already see the first signs of AI impacting on work here. We have record numbers of young people not in employment, education or training because many entry-level j…”

“One data centre, even a modest one, uses the same amount of electricity as 100,000 homes. The bigger the data centre, the more electricity it uses. Very few of them run off renewables, so that is another issue we need to address. The communities that host the infrastructure see the costs, in water, energy and land, wit…”

“Yes, young people and their employment prospects are intrinsically linked to the debate about the future of AI. The hon. Gentleman is right that we have to get that right for those people to have a future. We also need the Government to introduce a raft of measures to manage AI-driven changes to work. Those measures sh…”

“I thank the hon. Member for his intervention; I will deal with AI sovereignty a bit later in my speech. We should ensure that, like a socialist Government’s approach to energy or water, the public have a stake in the development of AI technology, to ensure that the value it creates is captured and shared for the good o…”

“It is nearly two years since the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel’s presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territories is unlawful. Does the Minister believe that it is morally or legally justifiable for British bases to continue to be used to transfer weapons to Israel as part of this ongoing conflict?”

“Our social security system acts as the bedrock of our welfare state, but for years, the safety net it was meant to provide has developed more and more holes through which some of our most vulnerable citizens have fallen. For our older generation, the state pension is absolutely the foundation on which a decent retireme…”

“The Pensions Minister knows that there is no retirement on a dead planet, so will he commit to writing to the 50 largest UK pension funds to ask them to set out their timetable for divesting from fossil fuels?”

“It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Sir Jeremy. I congratulate the right hon. Member for The Wrekin (Mark Pritchard) on securing this timely debate and on his interesting and balanced speech. In today’s digital age, a small group of technology giants wield extraordinary influence over the infrastructure, s…”

“The Minister will know that coastal towns, such as Poole, which I represent, rely on small businesses. Poole would not be Poole without its restaurants or ice cream parlours. Polling this week shows strong public support for higher levies on big tech. Could this be a way to raise revenue to cut business rates and suppo…”

“3. What steps he is taking to help improve response times to fires in Poole constituency.”

“My hon. Friend will know that Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service has received an 11.8% increase in core spending power. Despite that, there are plans to merge Hamworthy fire station with the one in Poole. Not only will this increase response times, but it fails to take account of specific challenges in the ar…”

“The tabling I find really easy. I think the system is good—as I said, I took to it easily and quickly. I found it very easy to use and a very good system. Sometimes the Table Office will come back and query some of my assertions or the questions that I am raising.”

“Like some others in this room, I was a brand-new MP in July 2024, and I took to written questions really quickly—I love a written question. You have probably seen the list that I have put in over my time. It is not as many as some colleagues, I appreciate, but I am pretty assiduous. If I do not put in a question every …”

“Frequent fliers.”

“My name is Neil Duncan-Jordan, and I am the Labour MP for Poole in Dorset.”

“Hard to believe, indeed. “You can’t demand socialism overnight, Neil—you have to take a bit longer.” It would have been helpful, I think, to have had a little more guidance about how questions should be structured. I looked at what other people had done and copied it—I did not really have any training in doing that, bu…”

“I don’t know about a game; I have certainly had very few answers that come back and say, “I can’t tell you this because of secrecy.” That is not what’s happening to me. What’s happening to me is that the detail I am wanting or the questions I am asking are not actually being answered—not because of secrecy, but because…”