Speeches by Edwards.

“David, trading standards traditionally are often localised teams that go into bricks-and-mortar businesses. How do you deal with the fact that these marketplaces are anywhere, distribution hubs are all over the place, and they can be accessed online at any time of day? What does all that do to challenge you in terms of…”

“These figures were online, but you specifically mentioned 100,000. I am particularly interested in the Vine review scheme that Amazon has created and runs. It is a scheme that incentivises reviews; if you are a seller, it costs £140 to send 11 to 30 items to an Amazon customer. They will post a review and get the item …”

“Are there others globally that sell on your platform, so that if you are a UK consumer, you can purchase from them?”

“T8. My constituency has been extremely lucky in getting £20 million for Glascote Heath and Stonydelph under the Pride in Place programme, which gives local people the ability to choose how the funding is to be spent. Will there be more rounds of this funding or similar schemes so that local people can be put in charge …”

“That sounds extremely ridiculous, but it is helpful to feed into potential recommendations. Wayne, was there anything that you wanted to add on this point? We have just heard about the powers currently holding these huge marketplaces to account, and the difficulty that we have with boots on the ground from trading stan…”

“It would extend to medical device technology development, using that NHS data and piloting options? You obviously have the ability to pilot that.”

“You mention only lung cancer. Is there a particular reason why that was singled out to apply the AI?”

“It is a good place to segue on to that because obviously, £1 in every £6 of Government spending is on procurement. It is a huge possibility that we can leverage that spending base to make sure we are getting the right services. How do you view the current procurement processes that the Government have? We heard earlier…”

“Before you go on, let me just check on that one. This is a piece of medtech developed by the NHS with a partnership—or was it developed internally? There used to be an entire department that actually created these things and then sold them globally. There was actually a revenue-generating arm to the NHS, which I think …”

“Vinous, start-ups start out straight away and quite a lot of your members are probably in that zero to four-year category I would imagine where they are already going, “What are all the tools I can possibly have that make me really efficient?” Perhaps you have some great examples of how they have gone exponential growt…”

“That is fantastic. That leads me to my follow-up to Alyn. You mentioned earlier that highways defects were one application of AI and the front door was another. I am guessing that means when people come in with an issue around council services or something such as that. Have you incorporated that worker voice into the …”

“Alyn, how is it applying in your part of local government? Do you feel like you have the ability to procure the types of services you need? You certainly mentioned and gave examples of how it is being used currently. Is there anything you would change or improve on that, or do you feel you are being given some freedom …”

“This panel has been excellent so far in giving actual examples of the productivity gains being generated by artificial intelligence. I have been getting quite frustrated by just hearing, “It makes things better,” or, “We get more productive.” I want to know how. I want it to be described more. Thank you for some exampl…”

“It was mentioned earlier that the adoption was uneven, which is quite key to benefits, because we have PwC estimating that GDP could go up by 10% in the next three, four years. The British Chamber of Commerce is citing SMEs as being the most optimistic in their adoption of AI, but at the same time an SME is 0 to 249 pe…”

“Daniel, you might be able to provide a bit of a wider context. Obviously Siemens is global and operates worldwide; is there any light that you can shed on how AI adoption is happening across the Siemens group, and is it different in different countries? Has it taken a different approach, and are there any things that y…”

“This is within your Siemens group, so are those the two jurisdictions where you are ploughing ahead much faster internally? I am not talking about their Government policies; I am more talking about how you approach it as a company.”

“Can I just check, is the current model from the Government, where they almost give you that pro forma saying, “This is how you procure services or goods and things,” quite restrictive, or are you able to almost create your own? Are they starting to reformulate that approach, or is it something that you have just done s…”

“T7. Recently I came back from Canada with the Business and Trade Committee, and we were impressed by the opportunities presented by middle powers. Last week the midlands had its first defence procurement conference. What opportunities are the ministerial team trying to develop in region, so that we can work with our al…”

“Can you give us an example of what that might be? What are they receiving and why? What might that thing be? What does the slop look like?”

“Paul, across the range of businesses that you see, do you have specific examples where you can say, “This business in particular at this size really found that this and this worked really well”? How are they approaching that, and where can we latch on to the real positives of what they can do? I am just trying to bring…”