Lord Vallance of Balham
The Lord Vallance of Balham KCB
Labour
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Artificial Intelligence: Legislation
20/07/2025 • Lords
The noble Baroness will be aware that we have allocated up to £2 billion for AI, £500 million of which is on sovereign AI. That unit is just being est...
I think the noble Viscount is very well aware that we have taken a rather different approach, in that we are proposing regulation largely through the ...
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ARIA: Scoping Our Planet Programme
07/07/2025 • Lords
DARPA is a much larger organisation and the ARPA family overall probably has close to 1,000 people working in it in total. DARPA is covered by the US ...
It has been known for a little while that Ilan Gur would return to the US, where his family is now back. I know, because I was on the board of ARIA fo...
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Data Centres: Energy and Water Consumption
07/07/2025 • Lords
The Government are aiming to designate data centres as a type of commercial project to be considered under the nationally significant infrastructure p...
The Government believe that the best way to deliver price reductions for clean power is the clean power 2030 mission, so that View full contribution →
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AI Opportunities Action Plan
04/06/2025 • Lords
This is an area close to my heart. It is a crucial part of stimulating innovation right across the patch. Government procurement ought to be a way in ...
As the noble Lord points out, there has been a decrease in PhD funding through UKRI from 2018 to 2022. The overall number of PhD students has not gone...
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Science and Innovation: Alan Turing Institute
18/05/2025 • Lords
The Alan Turing Institute now has four main themes—health, environment, defence and security, and fundamental AI—but it also has the Centre for Emergi...
I thank the noble Lord. The Alan Turing Institute is indeed an independent charity, but it receives funding from the Government. Indeed, from 2024-29 ...
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Scientists: Working in the United Kingdom
12/05/2025 • Lords
An estimated 17% of R&D workers in the UK in 2023 were non-UK. In that year, 7% were EU nationals and 10% were non-EU. In the university sector, a...
I thank the noble Baroness for her question. In answer to the first part, I can confirm that the Minister sitting next to me heard that, so the Home O...
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Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL]
11/05/2025 • Lords
I apologise to the noble Baroness if she found that dismissive. My point was to try to say that there is a clear imperative under the new situation to...
I thank the noble Viscount, Lord Camrose, for his Motion 32A and Amendments 32B and 32C, and Motion 52A and Amendments 52B and 52C. I reiterate that t...
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Artificial Intelligence: Public Services
05/05/2025 • Lords
Like almost every technology that has been introduced, this can do good and harm. The noble Lord is quite right to raise the question of where it is g...
As the noble Viscount, Lord Camrose, rightly suggests, between 4% and 7% of public sector spend could be reduced with a mix of digitalisation and AI. ...
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AI: Cross-sector Legislation
28/04/2025 • Lords
I referred to assurance tools, and that will be part of those. The noble Lord is quite right to raise the important area of standards, because they ar...
I am very happy to write to the noble Baroness and give her the precise details of that. However, I reinforce that the UK has been at the forefront of...
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Engineering Biology (Science and Technology Committee Report)
27/04/2025 • Lords
I thank the noble Lord for that question. In fact, the biofoundries, the manufacturing side of this and the hubs are quite well spread out across the ...
I want to be absolutely clear: that is not the case for grants, whether they are for companies or academics; this applies only for a subset of contrac...
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