Speeches by Morello.

“It is not a policy decision. I don’t think we particularly have the skillset in my office. I hired from departing MPs’ offices, so most of them had a way of doing stuff that I was able to rely on and feel confident in. I am sure there will come a point when we may start deploying it in some way, shape or form, but, at …”

“I think that is a very good question. Undoubtedly, more resource in the Table Office would be to its benefit. There is a risk here of sort of boxes and gases—that you just end up creating space for more written questions—but I certainly think that its capacity could be improved. Despite the fact that, apparently, I hav…”

“Sorry, Chair.”

“I just want to know, John, have you actually uncovered any basis for this outrageous Government claim that we are all using AI? Given all the people you have asked, has there been any evidence?”

“I have to be careful about attributing effect and cause and confusing those two things, because I recognise that sometimes you are asking a question and it might be a named day question that requires a Department to go several rungs down. I might be trying to find out something about dentistry in West Dorset, and that …”

“I respect the fact that quite often the FCDO and the MOD will not be able to give you an answer. That does not mean you are wrong to ask the question. There might be another way of eliciting that information. I will be honest: I think it is pot luck who you have responding to it and how many questions they have had to …”

“Again, I made sure to speak to a number of staffers before appearing, to see whether there was anything that they felt was important, and they all wanted to praise the staff in the Table Office. They are extremely helpful and amenable, and get an enormous amount done under huge amounts of pressure. I would not want to …”

“Yes, we do that as well. Absolutely, there are multiple facets to it. For example, we had a conversation in my office the other day about renewable energy and decoupling gas prices from wholesale energy prices. I had read a proposal in a paper that said, “Actually, there are a number of options here.” We went to the Li…”

“First of all, the Committee should have called my chief of staff and not me, because they do most of the written questions, so we had a long discussion before this. We use them predominantly in two ways. One is because we are trying to find something out. That may be for the purpose of informing a question or a speech,…”

“I respect the fact that quite often the FCDO and the MOD will not be able to give you an answer. That does not mean you are wrong to ask the question. There might be another way of eliciting that information. I will be honest: I think it is pot luck who you have responding to it and how many questions they have had to …”

“My name is Edward Morello. I am the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for West Dorset. I was elected in 2024.”

“Again, I made sure to speak to a number of staffers before appearing, to see whether there was anything that they felt was important, and they all wanted to praise the staff in the Table Office. They are extremely helpful and amenable, and get an enormous amount done under huge amounts of pressure. I would not want to …”

“I have to be careful about attributing effect and cause and confusing those two things, because I recognise that sometimes you are asking a question and it might be a named day question that requires a Department to go several rungs down. I might be trying to find out something about dentistry in West Dorset, and that …”

“I respect the fact that quite often the FCDO and the MOD will not be able to give you an answer. That does not mean you are wrong to ask the question. There might be another way of eliciting that information. I will be honest: I think it is pot luck who you have responding to it and how many questions they have had to …”

“I have to be careful about attributing effect and cause and confusing those two things, because I recognise that sometimes you are asking a question and it might be a named day question that requires a Department to go several rungs down. I might be trying to find out something about dentistry in West Dorset, and that …”

“I am almost certain there is some guidance and that I had it explained to me in depth, on the first day, when I was being shown around Parliament and where the toilets were, and when I had to get a computer and everything else. I am not sure I necessarily retained it, as many people did not in that first 24 hours. I di…”

“I am almost certain there is some guidance and that I had it explained to me in depth, on the first day, when I was being shown around Parliament and where the toilets were, and when I had to get a computer and everything else. I am not sure I necessarily retained it, as many people did not in that first 24 hours. I di…”

“The risk with all these things is that you just displace where the pressure is. If you suddenly start saying that you cannot do written questions or limiting the number of them, the risk is that MPs will just start writing more letters to Ministers and then Ministers will have to spend their entire time responding to t…”

“The risk with all these things is that you just displace where the pressure is. If you suddenly start saying that you cannot do written questions or limiting the number of them, the risk is that MPs will just start writing more letters to Ministers and then Ministers will have to spend their entire time responding to t…”

“I think that is a very good question. Undoubtedly, more resource in the Table Office would be to its benefit. There is a risk here of sort of boxes and gases—that you just end up creating space for more written questions—but I certainly think that its capacity could be improved. Despite the fact that, apparently, I hav…”