Science and Technology Committee

7 July 2026

Science and Technology Committee Actual start House of Lords

17:08 - 18:46
Speaker 1
Good morning.  Welcome to this Select Committee on Science and Technology.  We are proceeding with our inquiry into innovation in the NHS, specifically concerning personalised medicines and AI. 

We're very pleased to have as our witness this morning Preet Kaur Gill, who is the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health and Social Care.  And with her are two of her colleagues, Fiona Bride, the Interim Director General for Commercial and Growth, Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England, and Rob Thompson, Chief Digital, Data and Technology Officer, Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England.  Thank you all for coming.  We have quite a number of questions for you.  So, as you know, our inquiry has chosen to look at innovation in the NHS through the lens of two major healthcare technologies: personalised medicines and AI for healthcare. 

And the 10-year health plan describes an ambition to, and I quote, "establish a genomics population health service and make the NHS the most AI-enabled care system in the world." 

So the first question that we have is what are the government's ambitions for these two technologies and what progress are you making to deliver on these?  So Minister, would you like to start? 

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