Speeches by Kyle.

“I am. Of course, yes, we will be continuing to look at the regional aspects and also committing to those targets. For me, we have several opportunities going forwards. When you see what the new DSIT is doing and the way that we are restructuring DSIT, we are going to be active in diffusing technology into the economy. …”

“Do you want to take that, because it is comparing two that I was not involved in?”

“Britain is the best place in the world to come and put your scientific skills to use. You will be rewarded for it, you will be celebrated for it, and you will find a great environment to work in. I do not underplay or downplay the challenge that the Home Secretary has in dealing with the overall migration challenge the…”

“We have to tackle the investment landscape. Our economy is under-capitalised. I have even had senior figures from the London stock exchange coming and explaining where the issues are. It will be very hard for us to compete in terms of the overall capital at the disposal of some investors and venture capitalists when it…”

“We know that there is something missing in our investment landscape. Quite often, I hear the general statement that we are not good at it, so let us be really proud about what we are really good at. We are really good at starting up. We have more start-ups per head of population that anyone on the continent of Europe. …”

“I hear you. I will take it back.”

“It is a really broad question. Firstly, we are working very closely with the Department for Education, which is establishing Skills England at the moment. It is also undertaking the largest review for a generation of the national curriculum for secondary education. DSIT is integral to those reviews. We are feeding in a…”

“In due course.”

“No, I understand.”

“As I said, we have not allocated it yet.”

“When you are talking about £13 billion of spending, and yet we have not allocated the 8.5% uplift, it is impossible to say which areas are going to get the uplift, if there is one, or are going to get greater investment. I am sure that it is something that we can return to, but you will see that R&D and life sciences i…”

“When we were putting together the programme of government, this is something that we heard time and time again. We know that three-year funding, for example, means that you spend the first year getting up and running, the second year doing, and the last 18 months being riven by insecurity about what happens next. In ce…”

“I will be pithier next time, I promise.”

“There is a cultural challenge with algorithms in the private sector. I am committed to publishing how algorithms are used in the public sector and in Government Departments. The previous Government published one of the reports, the algorithmic transparency report.[7] I am trying to get us to the point where every Gover…”

“As a rule of thumb, I always agree with what the Ministers in my team have to say, although thankfully I am not accountable for what they say before they become Ministers in my Department. The general point that he was making is a valid one. ARIA is set up for a very specific purpose, and that is to do high-risk invest…”

“Those individual organisations will not interact. The AI Safety Institute needs to have independence to focus entirely on predeployment safety issues in the most conceptual way. You raise a really interesting point on post-deployment. I want to reassure people about post-deployment, where the regulators have power and …”

“To clarify, the previous Government had a voluntary code. I praise the previous Government for establishing the AI Safety Institute. The Prime Minister of the time, Rishi Sunak, did our country good by establishing that, but also contributed towards a global good, because the expertise that has emerged from the AI Safe…”

“Sorry, I should have made it clearer. I commissioned three reports the week I came into office. The first is the AI action plan, which is all about action. As for the two other reports, the digital state of the state is a review that will be reporting in the forthcoming period on every Government Department, its capabi…”

“It might be a gap; I am happy to look at it. If you see areas that I can be doing better on or may have overlooked, I will never be defensive about that. I mentioned the inter-ministerial group before. The first thing we did back in July was put a moratorium on all non-critical digital spend across Government of more t…”

“Via the private sector, yes.”