Speeches by Baldwin.

“Is that the main way that your officials are using artificial intelligence in the work of the Treasury?”

“Presumably that is a closed system.”

“Okay. In your work as Economic Secretary, are you using artificial intelligence at the moment?”

“Given how fast artificial intelligence is changing and allowing opportunities for bad actors, including hackers and those who wish to bring down our financial system, are you confident that the Treasury, the Bank and the FCA combined have sufficient skills to make those kinds of assessments? Who would like to answer th…”

“My question was slightly different: do you expect there to be any organisations designated by this time next year?”

“Would you expect that in a year’s time there will be any critical third parties in our financial system?”

“So you expect there to be someone designated within six months?”

“So you would have to be triggered by that? You could not initiate it?”

“Have you received any so far?”

“I am not expecting you to name anyone, but is this process under way for any potentially designatable critical third parties?”

“Are you currently undertaking any assessments?”

“What would it take to be designated as a critical third party?”

“The financial stability of the whole system depends on people feeling confident and trusting the regulatory environment. The other day, an outage at Amazon Web Services affected consumers’ ability to access one of our banks. We wrote to you—and we have just published your response—about those critical third parties. It…”

“The Chancellor justified at the Dispatch Box what a working person is. Will she reiterate at the Dispatch Box now what she said to the British public during the general election campaign, which is that her forthcoming Budget will not raise taxes on working people?”

“Fifty-one years ago this month, 21 people were murdered and 200 people were injured in the Birmingham pub bombings. Last week the Minister for Security, the hon. Member for Barnsley North (Dan Jarvis), issued a statement saying that he would not be recommending a public inquiry and that, instead, the Justice for the 21…”

“I welcome the all-new ministerial team to their positions. They have inherited a crisis, because business confidence has plunged to a record low since the Chancellor’s Halloween budget a year ago today. Will the Business Secretary assure this House that he will find and demonstrate his backbone, stand up to the Chancel…”

“I associate myself with the remarks about British Beauty Week. In addition to beauty businesses, one of the key ingredients for growth on our high streets is having a post office in the mix. As Post Office Minister, he has inherited a network of 11,500 post offices across the country and a consultation on the size of t…”

“Ms Howes, do you want to add anything on the point of deep poverty?”

“That is about £2,200 a month, or a bit more than that, so about £25,000 a year. This is after housing and after tax for a couple with two children?”

“I understand; I was just asking what the difference was.”