Speeches by Kyle.

“I am grateful for the hon. Member’s question. I have visited Huddersfield hospital, which is one of the first hospitals to fully integrate AI in its radiotherapy and scanning work. Having stood there and seen its power for early diagnosis through its ability to detect patterns at an incredibly early stage, I am left in…”

“The hon. Gentleman raises a very important point, one that the Government are committed to. That is why we increased research and development spending to the highest of any Government in this country. It will have a direct impact on the issues he raises.”

“I agree, of course. Technological innovation will be key to the move to net zero, and the UK will be at the forefront of that. SMRs are particularly exciting. I have met Rolls-Royce, which has a great advocate in my hon. Friend. I look forward to hearing more from him and seeing how we can support this exciting technol…”

“The data library is going through its scoping phase now. We will consult very extensively as we move every step forward. I am very, very aware that data is a sensitive issue, which is why my language has been very measured about reassuring the public that privacy and safety have to be baked in from the outset. We have …”

“If you can have a word with the colleagues in the House of Lords who have just tabled 230 amendments to it, then we can certainly expedite it through Parliament as quickly as possible.”

“It depends on the Houses of Parliament. Now—”

“Forgive me if it is too technical to go into all the detail, but there is the mechanism for Government, for secure identification purposes, simply to guarantee that the person is the person they say they are. But we are not involved in the provision of digital ID services. We do need to make sure that national standard…”

“Stop me if I am not framing the question in the way you had hoped. The Bill will provide the legal framework for private sector provision of digital ID. That is a market for which there is considerable demand. We are one of the very few advanced economies that do not allow digital ID to be provided by the private secto…”

“Do you want me to carry on talking?”

“One Login requires the verification app, which has now been downloaded, I believe, 7 million times.[3] That means that people can log into One Login safely and securely. They will know that the data they share and the interactions they have with Government services will be secure. We can know as a Government that the p…”

“You just perfectly described the need for the national data library, which is in the scoping phase now. This is going to take a long time to deliver, but we are expediting it as quickly as we can. It is being led by Maggie Jones, who is our outstanding Minister from the House of Lords. Over time, all Government data fr…”

“We anticipate some fairly rapid movement here. The use of data in the NHS is a really challenging issue. There are a lot of legacy systems. Different health trusts, primary care settings and individual hospitals are using different data being stored in different ways, which often are not interoperable within the same h…”

“When we were putting together the programme of government, this is something that we heard time and time again. We know that three-year funding, for example, means that you spend the first year getting up and running, the second year doing, and the last 18 months being riven by insecurity about what happens next. In ce…”

“The fact that we stood on a prospectus and manifesto based on a decade of national renewal has given licence to people like me—and thank you for your words at the beginning; I am having the time of my life in this job. It gives licence to people like me to undertake programmes that are going to take quite a long time t…”

“That is such a good question, because all of us in this room have a passion for the potential of science and technology, and its achievements. In Government, of course, it is tenfold that, because there is a lot more that Government need to do in order to deliver for citizens up and down the country. We have five missi…”

“I hope so.”

“We are ready for the review. The relationship that I established in the first fortnight or couple of weeks of coming into office with the European Commission is one that I welcomed. We have had several conversations now from my position with the relevant commissioner in the European Union, and we have reached a pretty …”

“I have a slight advantage because I am setting it up for the first time, so it will be modelled really on what I have asked for specifically, which is granular information on the progress of projects and priorities for the Department. Sarah and I speak about this quite often. We are trying to make sure we get it right.…”

“The digital centre is now quite publicly spoken about and quite widely known. What is not known is that I have also set up a delivery unit within DSIT, because DSIT has never been a delivery Department before in that sense. We will be delivering services to citizens, which you will see next year. We are now responsible…”

“I am. Of course, yes, we will be continuing to look at the regional aspects and also committing to those targets. For me, we have several opportunities going forwards. When you see what the new DSIT is doing and the way that we are restructuring DSIT, we are going to be active in diffusing technology into the economy. …”