Speeches by Russell.

“Lovely.”

“Are you confident that your staff have the training to identify safeguarding concerns regarding children specifically?”

“What is your answer to the question?”

“To take a slightly different angle, if you had a family member who had been stalked by someone violent and there was an exclusion order with a tag associated with it, would you be comfortable about what was going to happen to that offender? I am not asking this as a question about Serco’s performance within this system…”

“Are you confident that your staff have the training to identify safeguarding concerns regarding children specifically?”

“Yes, please. I would like those figures.”

“Could my right hon. Friend the Minister please confirm whether any documents that were previously in the scope of the Humble Address have been deemed no longer to be within its scope due to the application of litigation privilege in respect of the dismissal of Olly Robbins?”

“Also emotional control, for instance: you do not have to admit an offence to accept that you might have a problem with emotional control.”

“It is on page 32. “HMIP’s Children in Custody 2023-24 report found that only 12% of unsentenced children took part in any interventions, such as offending behaviour programmes and in some establishments, interventions were limited to sentenced children in some establishments. This means that no meaningful work would ha…”

“It makes sense because they have not been found guilty.”

“It is accepted by many on the Government Benches that the Prime Minister did not know the outcome of the vetting, but the Cabinet Secretary came forward on Tuesday, having spent a month researching whether or not she could provide the advice that she did, so she had clearly thought very carefully about the information …”

“Have you done a review of what complaints you had about this organisation? It bought a lot of firms quite rapidly, didn’t it? Did you have ongoing complaints about it?”

“When does that programme deliver?”

“Yes.”

“On that topic, I am a solicitor—I practised for nearly 14 years—and I have never heard of this website. I spent a year supervising in a law centre, and I am not aware of you having any contact with our law centre about this in that time. You say that you do a lot of promotional activity, but I was a local councillor fo…”

“You just talked about Garfield AI, and that is an extremely interesting model. Do you feel that your regulatory framework works?”

“In theory, that all sounds fantastic. There are obviously significant problems with AI models hallucinating. There are significant problems with AI models having inbuilt biases, in respect of both race and sex. How does your current regulatory strategy look at that?”

“PM Law unexpectedly closed on 2 February, putting millions of pounds of client funds at risk. What risks were the SRA aware of prior to its closure?”

“In terms of the specific review about the information you had about PM Law, when will that be complete?”

“Do you think that that discloses any areas in which you should function differently?”