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1666508

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners' Release
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his oral statement of 16 October 2023 on Prison Capacity, Official Report column 59, what criteria his Department will use to decide which less serious offenders will be moved out of prison on licence up to 18 days before their automatic release date.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	203758
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>Only lower-level offenders serving a Standard Determinate Sentence and due for automatic release on licence at the half-way point will be considered for removal onto licence under these arrangements. More serious and higher risk offenders whose release is a matter for the Parole Board to assess will not be in scope.</p><p> </p><p>Those serving a sentence for any kind of sexual offence, terror offence or any violent offence with a sentence of more than four years will also automatically be ruled out. Offenders eligible for End of Custody Supervised Licence will be subject to strict licence conditions, as identified by probation in their release management plan.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 26/10/2023 11:15:24 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1666509

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners' Release
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his oral statement of 16 October 2023 on Prison Capacity, Official Report column 59, what assessment he has made of the potential impact on victims of less serious offenders being moved out of prison onto licence earlier than their automatic release date.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	203759
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>Protecting the public is our number one priority – and so it is right that we take the tough and decisive action so we can keep putting the most serious offenders behind bars and for longer, as the public would rightly expect.</p><p> </p><p>We understand that information is deeply important for victims which is why those who have been victims of crime can get information and updates about developments relating to their case where they are eligible for the Victim Contact Scheme (VCS).</p><p> </p><p>There is a duty to inform victims signed up to the VCS before an offender is moved out of prison onto licence and to seek their views on whether they would like to see particular licence conditions included, such as an exclusion zone or non-contact conditions. That duty will apply equally under this scheme and offenders will not be moved onto licence on ECSL unless and until that victim contact has been completed.</p><p> </p><p>Offenders will also have a supervision plan put together by probation, including strict licence conditions, to ensure that they can be safely managed in the community. As my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Justice, set out in his speech to parliament, this scheme will simply bring forward that removal onto licence by no more than 18 days. And if they fail to comply or behave in a way that puts the public at risk, they can be immediately brought back to prison for the remainder of their sentence.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 26/10/2023 11:16:21 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1666510

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners' Release
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his oral statement of 16 October 2023 on Prison Capacity, Official Report column 61, when he plans to report to the House on the curtailing of the licence period for offenders held on Imprisonment for Public Protection sentences.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	203760
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Justice, advised in his statement to this House on 16 October that he would be looking at options to curtail the licence period to restore greater proportionality to Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences in line with recommendation 8 of the report by the Justice Select Committee report. He will revert to Parliament on this as soon as parliamentary time allows.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 26/10/2023 11:25:23 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1666536

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: Applications
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to increase the speed of processing Leave to Remain applications.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	203761
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes a range of data including some on processing times. Please see link: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fmigration-transparency-data%23uk-visas-and-immigration&amp;data=05%7C01%7CAdam.Teese%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cfe397311d06b4fc0f55208dbd5484295%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638338278546409928%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=JEk3znNRpMvENztEf06nDB6YnRvsZ15EFrX3cR48vfY%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Migration transparency data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p>The resources available are deployed to decide applications as quickly as possible.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 26/10/2023 08:42:42 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1660805

	registered interest
	date	14/09/2023
	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: Arts
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether she plans to invite representatives from creative industries to the London AI Summit.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	199545
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2023 answer text <p>The UK believes that the dangers of frontier AI risks are increasingly urgent. This includes risks such as biosecurity and cybersecurity, including from the potential misuse of models by non-state actors. This will be the focus of the AI Safety Summit and the invitee list will reflect this theme. The Government is working on wider AI-related risks including those associated with the creative industries through the Creative Industries Sector Vision and via work with the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) to get the balance right in supporting Government’s ambitions on AI innovation without critically undermining value for rights holders.</p><p> </p><p>The government set out its ambitions for the Summit in greater detail at the start of September, and we look forward to sharing more details in due course.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 22/09/2023 11:40:52 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1652275

	registered interest
	date	12/07/2023
	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 and Copyright: Codes of Practice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what recent estimate she has made of when the Intellectual Property Office will publish its code of conduct on copyright and artificial intelligence.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	193559
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2023 answer text <p>The working group on copyright and AI has asked the Intellectual Property Office for more time to prepare a draft code of practice. A progress update will be published on GOV.UK shortly.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 20/07/2023 15:23:40 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1652277

	registered interest
	date	12/07/2023
	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: Copyright
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether it is her Department’s policy that companies using copyrighted data to train artificial intelligence models must seek appropriate licences.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	193560
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2023 answer text <p>The copyright framework is relevant whenever copyright works are copied. Permission or a licence should be obtained unless an exception applies.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 20/07/2023 15:22:46 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1652279

	registered interest
	date	12/07/2023
	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	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether she hold discussions with her international counterparts on the use of unlicensed data to train artificial intelligence models at the global summit on Artificial Intelligence.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	193561
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2023 answer text <p>The UK will host the first major global Summit on AI safety this autumn.</p><p>The Summit will bring together key countries, as well as leading technology companies and researchers, to drive targeted, rapid international action to guarantee safety and security at the frontier of this technology.</p><p>The Summit will seek to agree on the safety measures needed to evaluate and monitor the most significant risks emerging from the newest developments in AI technologies.</p><p>Decisions are ongoing regarding the agenda for the Summit and we look forward to updating the House further as our preparations continue.</p><p>With regards specifically to data and AI, as a government, we want to make the UK a world leader in research and AI innovation, whilst ensuring that the UK copyright framework continues to promote and reward investment in creativity. To enable that, the government is supporting the growth of the creative industries through a number of IP-related initiatives, including the IPO’s Counter Infringement Strategy, to ensure IP rights are protected online.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 20/07/2023 16:00:19 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1652280

	registered interest
	date	12/07/2023
	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	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 oral evidence of the Prime Minister to the Liaison Committee on 4 July 2023, HC1602, what steps her Department is taking to implement the (a) reporting and (b) licensing of large training runs for artificial intelligence.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	193562
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2023 answer text <p>It is clear that the right guardrails must be in place to manage the risks AI poses. Our proportionate regulatory framework, underpinned by a set of principles and supported by tools like AI assurance techniques and technical standards, sets out a responsible approach to AI innovation. The Government also made it clear in our AI regulation white paper that our approach must be adaptable. As we now look to implement the new regulatory regime, we are considering how the framework will apply to the various actors in the AI development and deployment lifecycle, with a particular focus on foundation models.</p><p>This is supported by the £100 million Foundation Model Taskforce led by Ian Hogarth, as well as a new central risk function and international leadership on AI safety through the AI summit.</p><p>Our proposed central functions, including risk analysis, horizon scanning, and monitoring and evaluation, will keep the wider landscape under constant review to inform policy. They will capture emerging risks, including risks arising from increasingly powerful foundation models. The Foundation Model Taskforce will meanwhile advance vital safety research, laying the groundwork for the safe adoption of AI across the UK economy, ensuring we are at the forefront of this pivotal technology.</p><p>The UK will host the first major global summit on AI safety this autumn. The Summit will bring together key countries, as well as leading technology companies and researchers, to drive targeted, rapid international action to guarantee safety and security at the frontier of this technology.</p><p>As the Prime Minister told the Liaison Committee, the Government continues to analyse a range of safety features and guard rails that we could put in place. These could include new measures for the reporting and licensing of large training runs. But it is vital that the effectiveness of any proposals are rigorously evaluated before they are implemented. This is why we welcome the wide range of stakeholders that provided insights to our consultation on the AI regulation white paper. We are currently considering all evidence sent to the consultation and we will provide an update through the Government's response later in the year.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 20/07/2023 16:01:56 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1650231

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2023
	answering body	Wales Office
	answering dept id	28
	answering dept short name	Wales
	answering dept sort name	Wales
	hansard heading	Rented Housing: Wales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the potential impact of increases in mortgage interest rates on rental costs in Wales.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	905730
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2023 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Wales and I engage with colleagues across government on a range of issues.</p><p>We recognise this is a concerning time for renters and those with mortgages. Whilst mortgage interest rates are a commercial decision for lenders, we expect lenders to treat all borrowers fairly. Buy-to-let borrowers facing financial difficulties should contact their lender to discuss the options available to them.</p> answering member constituency Vale of Clwyd answering member printed Dr James Davies question first answered 05/07/2023 12:48:49 answering member 4476 label Biography information for Dr James Davies
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan