Speeches by Dixon.

“But if they have lost the copy—”

“Depending on what you feed it. If it is rubbish, it doesn’t learn.”

“Are there any things that you are still having to do manually? You talked about uploading benefit statements. Where are you having to do heavy lifting that you did not expect?”

“Outstanding?”

“I just observe the complexity being described should be usual business. That is nothing to do with the handover from MyCSP. It is just how civil service pensions work.”

“I understand that arrangement.”

“When we have met you before, you have obviously held up a lot about automation and AI. Those are part of the efficiencies that were going to be in the contract that you signed with the Cabinet Office. In answer to Charlotte’s question, you said that all the AI and automation features have been in place since last week.”

“I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Brentford and Isleworth (Ruth Cadbury) for securing this debate and for her fantastic leadership of the Transport Committee. My hon. Friend the Member for Battersea (Marsha De Cordova) is no longer in her seat, but I commend her on her campaign on pavement parking, which is the ban…”

“Does the right hon. Gentleman recognise that many disabled people simply do not have a choice, because public transport is either not available, if they live in a rural area, or not accessible? Much of the reason why they have to resort to relying on cars and taxis is the failure to invest in an accessible public trans…”

“Given that your plan was to use AI, how far off are you from a full roll-out of your functionality? I realise that you will always improve it.”

“Oh, the AI chatbot. Have the other automation and AI features that you were expecting to implement by the end of March also been done?”

“So you have gone slower, but you are starting to deploy?”

“Colleagues have probed the decision making on the outcome level. I would like to probe on the reduction to the two options. The recommendation is to rule out the continued presence option. Under enhanced maintenance and improvement, you have basically added in this EMI+, which I understand to mean that the House of Lor…”

“Philip, you have obviously had to prioritise asset mapping. The docudrama “Dirty Business” has exposed that your predecessor cut costs, taking inspectors away from some of the frontline work to clean up our rivers. Has the work to meet the audit requirements in terms of asset mapping required you or your predecessor to…”

“If there is an opportunity to ask Philip a very short question that follows on from his previous response, then yes.”

“Going back to the phase 1 works, the breakdown here suggests that we are spending money on both QEII and Richmond House, which would be necessary only in a full decant option. Is that one of the drivers? By holding both options on the table for longer, we are actually having to do work to create two decanting options t…”

“On this £328 million for Richmond House, you are basically saying that you are going to create an alternative Chamber in Richmond House, regardless of whether Parliament makes a decision on EMI+ or full decant.”

“Having worked there as a civil servant in the Department of Health, I know that it is a ridiculous building. It does not function. We have stuck together some old terraced houses and a modern building, so I am sure we could do something quite radical. This is my last supplementary. Obviously, we are interested, from th…”

“Does EMI+ require the Commons to be decanted at all?”

“Hear, hear. I am looking at the timeline, and we have been on this for 26 years. I have a supplementary question on table 10, which is a list of other parliamentary projects that “support R&R”. It includes Victoria Tower and various electrical and health and safety works, totalling some £3.3 billion. Are those costs ad…”