Emily Darlington

Latest speeches

1. House of Commons · House of Commons · 13 October 2026

   • Courts and Tribunals Bill: Report Stage (Leveson Reforms & Jury Trials)

     “Thank you very much, Madam Deputy Speaker. I think the honourable member misses the point of the question that was just raised. The question he seems to misunderstand is the fact that the right to choose a jury trial is…”

     Watch from 4:25:24

   • Courts and Tribunals Bill: Report Stage (Leveson Reforms & Jury Trials)

     “Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and I thank my honourable friend for giving way. Is he aware of the Rape Crisis report that actually says that juries bring misconceptions and bias into the system and are less likely then to…”

     Watch from 4:49:58

2. Science, Innovation and Technology Committee · House of Commons · 15 September 2026

   • Innovation nation, private investment and translation efficiency

     “So in particular Sir Paul will remember where the government has essentially recreated the DTI. Yet at that time we had David Sainsbury as science minister with quite sharp elbows. He had a dedicated special adviser namely me. Just a…”

     Watch from 1:17:20

   • Treasury, Prime Ministerial focus and public support for science

     “Do you think so I'm going to ask you less about DSIT and more about do you think that there is that focus from the Chancellor and from the Prime Minister that we had back in those Labour days when…”

     Watch from 1:17:55

   • Post‑DSIT priorities, public sector transformation and GDS placement

     “Thanks, Chair. So I'm going to read this because I get really confused. So the Cabinet Office now has responsibility for public sector AI adoption. DSIT has been tasked with driving modernization of government and public services via the Government…”

     Watch from 1:56:43
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3. House of Commons · House of Commons · 8 September 2026

   • Online Safety statement: device-level child protection and social media

     “Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. And as she has, I'd like to pay tribute to the ministers before her that have laid some of the tough language and now the tough legislation that we're going to bring in. This could…”

     Watch from 4:41:37

4. House of Commons · House of Commons · 2 September 2026

   • Safeguarding, accessibility and protecting participants in democracy

     “Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. And in the five minutes you've allotted me, I will try and speak to my new clauses 41 through 47, the clause 82 and 83 that are now in my name on behalf of my…”

     Watch from 5:21:32

   • Safeguarding, accessibility and protecting participants in democracy

     “I thank my honorable friend for giving way, and she's making fantastic progress in protecting our democracy. In relation to criminal convictions, as she'll know, I have taken on my honorable friend's amendment about DBS checks to be listed as…”

     Watch from 7:17:18

5. Science, Innovation and Technology Committee · House of Commons · 14 July 2026

   • Catapults, access to finance and procurement links

     “Tom, I just want to nail you down and bring together a bunch of these ideas. We've talked about the importance of clusters in different regions. You know this committee is absolutely focused on regional economic growth. We've talked about…”

     Watch from 1:04:56

   • Catapults, access to finance and procurement links

     “Reading between your very calm presentation, and I think this committee would agree, there are Catapults of varying quality and delivery. You are open to being quite radical in closing some down, opening up new ones in new areas and…”

     Watch from 1:08:03

   • Catapults, access to finance and procurement links

     “I think what I hear you saying is Catapults are not very good at doing that now, but that's one of the elements of the review. And what about the access to customers, as you said, government's a huge customer,…”

     Watch from 1:10:37
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6. Westminster Hall · House of Commons · 8 July 2026

   • Emily Darlington: UK as AI maker, not AI taker

     “It's a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms McVey. I have rewritten this because I don't want to repeat all the things that have been said that I think we're in agreement, though we may have different perspectives. So…”

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