Dawn Butler has pressed ministers on how to protect the public from AI deepfakes and digital impersonation, and challenged the NHS Federated Data Platform contract over AI data sovereignty, pointing to UK-built alternatives. She sat on the Commons Science and Technology Committee from 2020 to 2024, and in 2026 backed a call for a pause on new AI data centres.

As a minister in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology from 2023 to 2024, Viscount Camrose led on AI and intellectual property in the Lords, including the period of the UK's AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park. He continues to speak on AI and digital policy from the Conservative benches and is a member of the APPG on AI.

Lord Clement-Jones chaired the House of Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence, whose 2018 report, AI in the UK: Ready, Willing and Able?, shaped a generation of UK policy, and co-founded the APPG on AI. He is the author of Living with the Algorithm, on AI governance, and regularly leads Lords debates on AI regulation, algorithms in public services and digital rights.

An engineer who spent 19 years at Worcester Bosch, where he led engineering work on hydrogen-ready boilers, Tom Collins sits on the Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, which scrutinises the government's AI and technology policy. He is a member of the APPG on AI and has spoken on online safety alongside the Molly Rose Foundation.

Victoria Collins has led for the Liberal Democrats on science and technology since September 2024. She sat on the committee for the Data (Use and Access) Bill, has pressed ministers to keep AI and children's online safety protections on track through the 2026 change of leadership, and spoke at UKAI's Sovereign AI Summit.

Claire Coutinho picked up the Conservative business brief in August 2026, which now covers science, technology and AI after the government merged departments. She has just begun maternity leave and returns in January 2027. As Energy Secretary from 2023 to 2024, and then shadowing the role, she led on the energy policy that AI growth depends on.

Emily Darlington is one of the most active MPs on AI harms. In 2026 she raised AI-generated deepfakes and their threat to democracy at Prime Minister's Questions, warned about the risks of companion chatbots for children, asked ministers about AI standards, and spoke in the Westminster Hall debate on technology sovereignty and the UK's reliance on big tech.

Before Parliament, Dr Allison Gardner was a senior scientific adviser for AI at NICE and a lecturer at Keele University, where she led the data science degree apprenticeship and researched AI ethics and algorithmic bias. Elected in 2024, she now co-chairs the APPG on AI and contributes to Commons debates on AI and society.

Lord Holmes first introduced his Artificial Intelligence (Regulation) Bill in November 2023, proposing an AI Authority and clear principles for safe, transparent AI. He reintroduced it in 2025 and it reached Grand Committee in June 2026. A Paralympic champion, he also campaigns on digital inclusion and making AI work for everyone.

Darren Jones founded and chairs the Interparliamentary Forum on Emerging Technologies, a global network of legislators working on how to govern new technology. He chaired the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, sat on the joint committee on the Online Safety Bill, and in government led the digital transformation of public services until July 2026.

Baroness Kidron led the Lords campaign to protect creators from the unlicensed use of their work to train AI, defeating the government several times during the passage of the Data (Use and Access) Bill. She founded the 5Rights Foundation and is a leading international voice on children's rights in the digital world.

Julia Lopez was Shadow Science, Innovation and Technology Secretary from July 2025 until the departments merged in August 2026, and now leads on science and technology in the Conservatives' business team, covering the wider brief during Claire Coutinho's leave. She has argued that Britain's regulatory freedom can give it an edge in AI and data, and questioned ministers on AI skills, connectivity and the Sovereign AI Fund.

Kanishka Narayan became the UK's first Minister for Artificial Intelligence to attend Cabinet in July 2026, working across the new Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade and the Cabinet Office. He was previously Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for AI and Online Safety from September 2025, and before Parliament advised technology companies as an investment banker.

Samantha Niblett worked in the IT industry for over 20 years and founded Labour Women in Tech to get more women and girls into technology careers. She sits on the Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, where she has challenged tech companies over how they treat children, and campaigns against the online harms and violence facing women and girls.

An electrical engineer who worked in telecoms and at Ofcom before Parliament, Dame Chi Onwurah chairs the Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee. Under her leadership the committee has examined AI and copyright and the harm caused by social media algorithms, and in 2026 she has pressed the government for clarity on AI policy after the break-up of DSIT.

Lord Ranger of Northwood has sat in the House of Lords since 2023 and on the Lords Science and Technology Committee since January 2025. As vice-chair of the APPG on AI, he helps lead Parliament's cross-party programme of evidence sessions with industry, academia and government on how AI is changing the UK.

On 8 September 2026 Alex Sobel introduced a bill to stop the development of artificial superintelligence until it can be shown to be safe and controllable, drafted with the campaign group ControlAI. More than 100 MPs and peers from across Parliament back it, and Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton issued a statement in support.

A former NHS psychiatrist, Dr Ben Spencer was Shadow Science, Innovation and Technology Minister from November 2024 and now shadows AI from the Cabinet Office. He argues against protectionism and new employment levies on AI, has called on the government to define technological sovereignty across specific tech stacks and supply chains, and is pressing ministers on AI Growth Zones, data centre planning and the Sovereign AI Fund.

Lord Tarassenko is a pioneer of AI in healthcare, whose research on machine learning and patient monitoring has been used in hospitals and clinical trials. The founding President of Reuben College, Oxford, he sits as a crossbench peer and is a member of the APPG on AI, bringing scientific evidence to Lords debates on AI.

In July 2026 the Prime Minister appointed Lord Vallance to chair the new AI Taskforce, which puts AI at the centre of government to transform public services and drive growth, reporting directly to the Prime Minister. He also chairs the Oxford to Cambridge Growth Corridor. He was Government Chief Scientific Adviser from 2018 to 2023, led the Vaccines Taskforce during the pandemic, and was most recently science minister.