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The speed at which the Government are giving access to our data is swifter than the plans to protect its financial or societal value. I think this is something of a theme of this Committee: it does not deal with the needs of IP holders, UK citizens, children or NHS patients, or meet the spectre of AI systems. There is often a conflation by Ministers of the need to access data for medicine, space, museums and other exciting matters with the prosperity it will bring and the savings it will make, but if we look at the deals made so far, the benefit has accrued disproportionately to a handful of US-headquartered companies.