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1699330

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
	answering dept id	216
	answering dept short name	Science, Innovation and Technology
	answering dept sort name	Science, Innovation and Technology
	hansard heading	Internet: Data Protection
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to ensure that existing web protocols designed to prevent unauthorised access to personal data are widely known and easily navigable for both individuals and organisations.
	tabling member printed	Lord Freyberg
	uin	HL3675
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2024 answer text <p>The UK’s existing Data Protection Framework requires organisations, including those developing AI technologies such as Large Language Models, to comply with UK data protection principles on lawfulness, fairness and transparency.</p><p>This includes requirements to make sure that processing personal data is ‘necessary’ for the intended purposes, carried out in a way that people would reasonably expect, and that data subjects are informed about processing and able to exercise their rights.</p><p>The Information Commissioner’s Office has updated guidance on how data protection laws apply to AI systems that process personal data to include fairness across the AI lifecycle.</p> answering member printed Viscount Camrose grouped question UIN HL3676 HL3677 HL3678 question first answered 12/04/2024 09:33:40 answering member 4939 label Biography information for Viscount Camrose
	tabling member	2593 label Biography information for Lord Freyberg

1699331

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
	answering dept id	216
	answering dept short name	Science, Innovation and Technology
	answering dept sort name	Science, Innovation and Technology
	hansard heading	Artificial Intelligence
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what measures they have implemented to address the challenges individuals may face in opting out of large language models accessing their personal data, particularly considering any complexity and difficulty of navigating existing protocols.
	tabling member printed	Lord Freyberg
	uin	HL3676
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2024 answer text <p>The UK’s existing Data Protection Framework requires organisations, including those developing AI technologies such as Large Language Models, to comply with UK data protection principles on lawfulness, fairness and transparency.</p><p>This includes requirements to make sure that processing personal data is ‘necessary’ for the intended purposes, carried out in a way that people would reasonably expect, and that data subjects are informed about processing and able to exercise their rights.</p><p>The Information Commissioner’s Office has updated guidance on how data protection laws apply to AI systems that process personal data to include fairness across the AI lifecycle.</p> answering member printed Viscount Camrose grouped question UIN HL3675 HL3677 HL3678 question first answered 12/04/2024 09:33:40 answering member 4939 label Biography information for Viscount Camrose
	tabling member	2593 label Biography information for Lord Freyberg

1699332

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
	answering dept id	216
	answering dept short name	Science, Innovation and Technology
	answering dept sort name	Science, Innovation and Technology
	hansard heading	Artificial Intelligence: Data Protection
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to introduce measures to encourage companies using large language models to adopt easily accessible machine-readable opt-in mechanisms to obtain consent from data subjects.
	tabling member printed	Lord Freyberg
	uin	HL3677
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2024 answer text <p>The UK’s existing Data Protection Framework requires organisations, including those developing AI technologies such as Large Language Models, to comply with UK data protection principles on lawfulness, fairness and transparency.</p><p>This includes requirements to make sure that processing personal data is ‘necessary’ for the intended purposes, carried out in a way that people would reasonably expect, and that data subjects are informed about processing and able to exercise their rights.</p><p>The Information Commissioner’s Office has updated guidance on how data protection laws apply to AI systems that process personal data to include fairness across the AI lifecycle.</p> answering member printed Viscount Camrose grouped question UIN HL3675 HL3676 HL3678 question first answered 12/04/2024 09:33:40 answering member 4939 label Biography information for Viscount Camrose
	tabling member	2593 label Biography information for Lord Freyberg

1699333

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
	answering dept id	216
	answering dept short name	Science, Innovation and Technology
	answering dept sort name	Science, Innovation and Technology
	hansard heading	Artificial Intelligence
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to implement regulations mandating AI developers to incorporate web protocols aimed at preventing large language models from accessing personal data without obtaining prior consent.
	tabling member printed	Lord Freyberg
	uin	HL3678
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2024 answer text <p>The UK’s existing Data Protection Framework requires organisations, including those developing AI technologies such as Large Language Models, to comply with UK data protection principles on lawfulness, fairness and transparency.</p><p>This includes requirements to make sure that processing personal data is ‘necessary’ for the intended purposes, carried out in a way that people would reasonably expect, and that data subjects are informed about processing and able to exercise their rights.</p><p>The Information Commissioner’s Office has updated guidance on how data protection laws apply to AI systems that process personal data to include fairness across the AI lifecycle.</p> answering member printed Viscount Camrose grouped question UIN HL3675 HL3676 HL3677 question first answered 12/04/2024 09:33:39 answering member 4939 label Biography information for Viscount Camrose
	tabling member	2593 label Biography information for Lord Freyberg

1688788

	registered interest
	date	12/02/2024
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	217
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Visual Arts: Income
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how the Department of Culture, Media and Sport captures information about visual artists’ overall income when they derive their main income from sources other than their artistic endeavours.
	tabling member printed	Lord Freyberg
	uin	HL2381
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2024 answer text <p>The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) publishes official statistics on earnings in the sectors and occupations for which it has policy responsibility. These statistics focus on how much is earned by an individual in a particular job, rather than providing information on an individuals’ total earnings.</p><p>We publish the following estimates of earnings:</p><ol><li><p>Based on the Office for National Statistics (ONS)’s Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, we publish <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/economic-estimates-earnings-2022-and-employment-oct-2021-to-sept-2022-for-the-dcms-sectors-and-digital-sector" target="_blank">median annual and weekly earnings for any job in a DCMS sector</a>. This would include anyone working in, for example, the cultural subsector of ‘Arts’ and the creative industries subsector ‘Music, performing and visual arts’. Earnings of visual artists who are self-employed or who work in industries outside these statistics would not be captured in these earnings estimates.</p></li></ol><ol start="2"><li><p>Based on ONS’s Annual Population Survey, we publish <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dcms-sector-national-economic-estimates-2011-to-2020" target="_blank">hourly gross pay estimates for any self-identified main job in a DCMS sector</a>. Using the same data source, we also publish hourly gross pay estimates for any self-identified main job in a DCMS creative occupation. This would include, for example, Artists (SOC 3411) and Graphic Designers (SOC 3421).</p></li></ol><p>We recently asked users of our statistics for feedback on these estimates and are considering our plans for these publications in the future.</p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay grouped question UIN HL2382 HL2383 question first answered 26/02/2024 16:35:15 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
	tabling member	2593 label Biography information for Lord Freyberg

1688789

	registered interest
	date	12/02/2024
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	217
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Visual Arts: Income
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how the Department of Culture, Media and Sport distinguishes and accounts for different income scenarios when collecting and analysing data related to visual artists, for example, where the artists derive their main income from sources other than their artistic endeavours.
	tabling member printed	Lord Freyberg
	uin	HL2382
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2024 answer text <p>The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) publishes official statistics on earnings in the sectors and occupations for which it has policy responsibility. These statistics focus on how much is earned by an individual in a particular job, rather than providing information on an individuals’ total earnings.</p><p>We publish the following estimates of earnings:</p><ol><li><p>Based on the Office for National Statistics (ONS)’s Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, we publish <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/economic-estimates-earnings-2022-and-employment-oct-2021-to-sept-2022-for-the-dcms-sectors-and-digital-sector" target="_blank">median annual and weekly earnings for any job in a DCMS sector</a>. This would include anyone working in, for example, the cultural subsector of ‘Arts’ and the creative industries subsector ‘Music, performing and visual arts’. Earnings of visual artists who are self-employed or who work in industries outside these statistics would not be captured in these earnings estimates.</p></li></ol><ol start="2"><li><p>Based on ONS’s Annual Population Survey, we publish <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dcms-sector-national-economic-estimates-2011-to-2020" target="_blank">hourly gross pay estimates for any self-identified main job in a DCMS sector</a>. Using the same data source, we also publish hourly gross pay estimates for any self-identified main job in a DCMS creative occupation. This would include, for example, Artists (SOC 3411) and Graphic Designers (SOC 3421).</p></li></ol><p>We recently asked users of our statistics for feedback on these estimates and are considering our plans for these publications in the future.</p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay grouped question UIN HL2381 HL2383 question first answered 26/02/2024 16:35:16 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
	tabling member	2593 label Biography information for Lord Freyberg

1688790

	registered interest
	date	12/02/2024
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	217
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Visual Arts: Income
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how the Department of Culture, Media and Sport ensures accuracy and comprehensiveness in capturing the financial details of visual artists who may have diverse income streams.
	tabling member printed	Lord Freyberg
	uin	HL2383
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2024 answer text <p>The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) publishes official statistics on earnings in the sectors and occupations for which it has policy responsibility. These statistics focus on how much is earned by an individual in a particular job, rather than providing information on an individuals’ total earnings.</p><p>We publish the following estimates of earnings:</p><ol><li><p>Based on the Office for National Statistics (ONS)’s Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, we publish <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/economic-estimates-earnings-2022-and-employment-oct-2021-to-sept-2022-for-the-dcms-sectors-and-digital-sector" target="_blank">median annual and weekly earnings for any job in a DCMS sector</a>. This would include anyone working in, for example, the cultural subsector of ‘Arts’ and the creative industries subsector ‘Music, performing and visual arts’. Earnings of visual artists who are self-employed or who work in industries outside these statistics would not be captured in these earnings estimates.</p></li></ol><ol start="2"><li><p>Based on ONS’s Annual Population Survey, we publish <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dcms-sector-national-economic-estimates-2011-to-2020" target="_blank">hourly gross pay estimates for any self-identified main job in a DCMS sector</a>. Using the same data source, we also publish hourly gross pay estimates for any self-identified main job in a DCMS creative occupation. This would include, for example, Artists (SOC 3411) and Graphic Designers (SOC 3421).</p></li></ol><p>We recently asked users of our statistics for feedback on these estimates and are considering our plans for these publications in the future.</p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay grouped question UIN HL2381 HL2382 question first answered 26/02/2024 16:35:16 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
	tabling member	2593 label Biography information for Lord Freyberg

1688721

	registered interest
	date	08/02/2024
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	217
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Museums and Galleries: Pay
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what guidelines, policies, or codes of conduct exist that govern the remuneration provided to artists engaged by UK National Museums and Galleries; and what mechanisms are in place to monitor and enforce adherence to these standards.
	tabling member printed	Lord Freyberg
	uin	HL2327
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2024 answer text <p>Creative and cultural practitioners are vital to the work of our museums and galleries: they bring independent visions and ideas, and offer highly developed specialist skills to the work of these institutions.</p><p>As the national museums and galleries operate at arm’s length from His Majesty's Government, the Department does not monitor payments made to artists or any other people working as contractors or freelancers at them.</p><p>While the Government has no plans to introduce a code of conduct, Arts Council England — the publicly-funded development agency for the arts and museums — has produced guidance outlining best practice for working with freelancers, without whom so much of the creative and cultural sectors could not operate. This is complemented by guidance from sector organisations such as the Museums Association.</p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay grouped question UIN HL2328 question first answered 19/02/2024 16:09:52 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
	tabling member	2593 label Biography information for Lord Freyberg

1688722

	registered interest
	date	08/02/2024
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	217
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Museums and Galleries: Pay
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to introduce a code of conduct to ensure that the remuneration provided to artists engaged by UK National Museums and Galleries meets or exceeds the national minimum living wage.
	tabling member printed	Lord Freyberg
	uin	HL2328
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2024 answer text <p>Creative and cultural practitioners are vital to the work of our museums and galleries: they bring independent visions and ideas, and offer highly developed specialist skills to the work of these institutions.</p><p>As the national museums and galleries operate at arm’s length from His Majesty's Government, the Department does not monitor payments made to artists or any other people working as contractors or freelancers at them.</p><p>While the Government has no plans to introduce a code of conduct, Arts Council England — the publicly-funded development agency for the arts and museums — has produced guidance outlining best practice for working with freelancers, without whom so much of the creative and cultural sectors could not operate. This is complemented by guidance from sector organisations such as the Museums Association.</p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay grouped question UIN HL2327 question first answered 19/02/2024 16:09:52 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
	tabling member	2593 label Biography information for Lord Freyberg

1672494

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2023
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	217
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	British Library: Cybersecurity
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what (1) immediate, and (2) long-term, assistance they are providing to the British Library in the aftermath of the recent ransomware attack, to ensure the recovery of compromised data, and the implementation of measures to enhance the Library's cybersecurity resilience.
	tabling member printed	Lord Freyberg
	uin	HL511
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2023 answer text <p>The British Library is undertaking a forensic investigation of this incident, with the support of the National Cyber Security Centre and cyber security specialists, and has reported it to the Information Commissioner’s Office. This investigation will help to provide a full picture of what happened, and the extent of disruption caused. This will take time, during which the British Library is liaising closely with the Department for Culture, Media &amp; Sport and others to provide updates.</p><p>The British Library has taken targeted protective measures to ensure the integrity of its systems, including the quarantining of hardware, the resetting of passwords for all staff, and the installation of additional monitoring and detection software across its estate.</p><p>The central aim of the Government Cyber Security Strategy is to ensure that Government’s critical functions are strengthened against cyber attack by 2025, and that all Government organisations across the public sector are resilient to known vulnerabilities and attack methods by 2030. As the sponsor Department for the British Library, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport will continue to work closely with the Library to enhance its overall cyber resilience and ensure these targets are met.</p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay grouped question UIN HL512 question first answered 05/12/2023 16:04:28 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
	tabling member	2593 label Biography information for Lord Freyberg