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1697416

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date	20/03/2024
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: Migrant Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, pursuant to the Answer of 11 March 2024 to Question 17194 on Artificial Intelligence: Migrant Workers, when the new dedicated visa scheme will be operational.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	19651
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2024 answer text <p>The new Future Technology Research &amp; Innovation (Government Authorised Exchange) visa scheme is expected to go live on 4 April 2024, which the Home Office announced in their Statement of Changes to the Immigration Rules laid in Parliament on 14 March. This visa scheme will allow sponsored researchers and interns to come to the UK to work in eligible organisation in the areas of the Government’s five critical technologies (AI, engineering biology, future telecommunications, semiconductors, and quantum technologies).</p> answering member constituency Arundel and South Downs answering member printed Andrew Griffith question first answered 25/03/2024 09:29:23 answering member 4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

1697419

registered interest
date	20/03/2024
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	UK Research and Innovation: Social Media
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to Q1 of the oral evidence given to the House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee on 12 March 2024, whether her Department (a) monitors and (b) records political statements made on social media by UKRI board members.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	19652
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2024 answer text <p>No. Due diligence is sometimes carried out by officials, at specific times, for example appointments made directly by DSIT, consistent with standard cross-government approaches.</p> answering member constituency Arundel and South Downs answering member printed Andrew Griffith question first answered 26/03/2024 17:48:20 answering member 4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

1697093

registered interest
date	19/03/2024
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	National Security Online Information Team: Social Media
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to the opening statement by the Secretary of State at the Lords Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee on 12 March 2024, whether the officials who alerted her to tweets posted by a EDI board member were part of the Counter Disinformation Unit.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	19414
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2024 answer text <p>No.</p> answering member constituency Arundel and South Downs answering member printed Andrew Griffith question first answered 22/03/2024 09:32:19 answering member 4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

1696797

registered interest
date	18/03/2024
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	UK Research and Innovation: Social Media
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, pursuant to the Answer of 18 March 2024 to Question 18536 on UK Research and Innovation: Social Media, whether she has authorised the targeted collection of the views of academics on UKRI boards.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	19118
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2024 answer text <p>No. Due diligence is sometimes carried out by officials, at specific times, for example appointments made directly by DSIT, consistent with standard cross-government approaches.</p> answering member constituency Arundel and South Downs answering member printed Andrew Griffith question first answered 26/03/2024 17:48:18 answering member 4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

1695784

registered interest
date	13/03/2024
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	UK Research and Innovation: Social Media
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what her policy is on producing reports into the online activity of academics on UKRI boards.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	18536
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2024 answer text <p>The Secretary of State is a staunch believer in free speech and would not authorise a sweeping collection of the views of academics.</p> answering member constituency Arundel and South Downs answering member printed Andrew Griffith question first answered 18/03/2024 16:51:27 answering member 4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

1695794

registered interest
date	13/03/2024
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	Kate Sang
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to the opening statement by the Secretary of State at the Lords Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee on 12 March 2024, what the total cost to the public purse was of legal fees including the (a) £15,000 settlement paid and (b) other legal expenditure.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	18537
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2024 answer text <p>A sum of £15,000 was paid without admitting any liability. This approach is intended to reduce the overall costs to the taxpayer that could result from protracted legal action.</p><p>Costs relating to legal fees incurred by the department will be published as part of DSIT’s Annual Report and Accounts.</p> answering member constituency Arundel and South Downs answering member printed Andrew Griffith question first answered 18/03/2024 16:52:19 answering member 4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

1694588

registered interest
date	07/03/2024
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	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: Defamation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to paragraphs 7.16 and 7.17 of the Ministerial Code, on how many occasions Ministers in her Department have informed the Law Officers that they are the defendants in a libel action in (a) their personal capacity, (b) their official position and (c) both since 7 February 2023.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	17678
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2024 answer text <p>As has been the practice under successive Governments, it is not the convention to comment on where the Law Officers have, or have not been, informed or advised on such legal matters. This is reflected in paragraph 2.13 of the Ministerial Code.</p> answering member constituency Arundel and South Downs answering member printed Andrew Griffith question first answered 14/03/2024 14:35:30 answering member 4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle