“What recent assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the increase in the Energy Price Guarantee in April 2023 on households.”
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Answer from Hansard
Sarah Jones
My hon. Friend and I have previously talked about this great opportunity. The rapid development and breakthrough of new AI models such as DeepSeek tell us that we need to go further and faster to remove barriers to innovation and make Britain the most competitive market. We need to be developing the technology ourselves. That is why we have set out our new AI strategy and why we are scaling up our capacity, creating AI growth zones and putting in place every vehicle we can to support the growth of technology innovation in our country, because we will need it in future.