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Baroness Stowell of Beeston (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 13 June 2025

Debate

AI and Creative Technologies (Communications and Digital Committee Report)

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My noble friend is right that the cost of energy in the UK is very much a deterrent to a lot of inward investment. It is not deterring them completely, but I was talking only yesterday to a very senior figure at Amazon and, as you would expect, he was drawing comparisons between us and France. I said earlier that London is no longer the leading tech hub, and according to one of these analysts the country that is really champing at our heels is France. I beg to move.

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