Speeches by Wrigley.

“The issue with most such situations in the past has been not only a short period of time for councils to respond, which they typically have managed to do, but the prolonged period of radio silence once those responses have been sent to Government. Can the Minister assure us that the Government will respond quickly to t…”

“Some very interesting comments are coming through. I am an engineer by training and normally finance switches me off entirely. I understand more of what we are talking about here than I did about protein folding—or just a bit. You made some interesting comments, Mr Johnson. You talked about plenty of science but a lack…”

“Yes.”

“Specifically, this is about the operations of private parking operators. I think we have all heard from people in our constituencies who have received outrageous fines. Recently, there was a lot of fuss in the news about someone who received a fine of, I think, £100 for being five minutes late and getting a ticket. The…”

“Yes, thank you, Chair. I am listening to what has been said already and reconsidering the questions that I have in front of me. It was intriguing to hear your discussion of “Hunger Games”, having come from 10 years in local government before this role. It is very much something we recognise. Coming back to the local go…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Stringer. I congratulate the right hon. and learned Member for Kenilworth and Southam (Sir Jeremy Wright) on securing this debate. We have heard some consistent themes coming through. We have heard about Ofcom perhaps misinterpreting what the House intended with the…”

“If the Government fully support our concerns about small but harmful sites, will the statutory instrument be reworked to bring them back into category 1, as the Act states?”

“3. What assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the development of the Google quantum computing chip.”

“Learning from the successful Y2K, or year 2000, prevention of systems failures, what progress has the Secretary of State made in considering post-quantum cryptography to prevent the so-called Y2Q—year to quantum—end of privacy, and what support is being provided for the development of quantum computing in the UK after …”

“I wasn’t expecting one. Can I draw your attention to the excellent work going on at the Exeter former Nightingale site where they have radically changed the way they treat patients? The ideas are largely driven through the Torbay trust. They have extracted to a non-emergency site huge numbers of low-risk, high-volume p…”

“Thank you very much. I am sorry I am slightly diverting. You talked about the Royal Marsden, where my sister is currently undergoing treatment. I love all the innovation and the fantastic things that we can do at the cutting edge. It frustrates me and patients tremendously that they do not have the basics to build on. …”

“Sorry, can you give me a moment and move on to somebody else first, please, Chair?”

“We have some really fundamental potential areas. At the moment, we appear to be trying to regulate the technology and not the use. You do not regulate a wheel; you regulate the car. What is the approach we are taking in an area where we could be seeing some huge steps taken very quickly?”

“Thank you for being here today, Minister. It is great to be able to talk about these things. I come from a long background in digital technologies and worked in mobile phones and all that sort of stuff for a long while. I worry about our generic use of complex terms such as “AI” and “quantum computing”. What people tal…”

“I refer the House to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. I thank the Deputy Prime Minister for allowing the people of my constituency to vote in the Devon county council elections this year, and I congratulate her on seeing through the tired Tory administration, which was seeking to avoid the vote…”

“This has been very interesting, and I was fascinated that you used the iPad as an example. A lot of people say that that was stolen from the film “2001: A Space Odyssey” in 1968, which had Newspads in its early scenes. That in itself should probably still be in copyright, but there we go. You talked a lot about transpa…”

“The AI that we see right now is fleeting. In two, three, five or 10 years’ time, it will be continuous learning AI. It will not be trained on, “Here’s a language model, this is what you have learned and therefore this is what you can talk about”. It will be continuously learning. It will be always fed data. It will not…”

“Will the Minister give way?”

“It is a very interesting dilemma. I have spent a number of years working with start-ups. I was in that sort of industry pre-pandemic, so I have seen all this under a number of things. I am also old enough to remember Napster and digital rights management going through a whole range of this stuff before, and I am wonder…”

“It is a very interesting dilemma. I have spent a number of years working with start-ups. I was in that sort of industry pre-pandemic, so I have seen all this under a number of things. I am also old enough to remember Napster and digital rights management going through a whole range of this stuff before, and I am wonder…”