Victoria Friedman

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said this focus will support the future skills needed and the government’s industrial strategy for economic growth.

Members of the public who had applied for legal aid since 2010 have been urged to be vigilant for any suspicious activity, such as unusual phone calls.

The committee also criticised the sudden closure of the government’s nature-friendly Sustainable Farming Incentives programme in March.

During the debate, MPs expressed their concern over the bill’s ability to protect the vulnerable, with some calling it unsafe in its current form.

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine’s president said the figures were ’the equivalent of two aeroplanes crashing every week.’

It comes a day after Scottish lawmakers backed a similar bill, with the proposed legislation set to continue moving through Holyrood.

Report found government resilience to be ’substantially lower than the Cabinet Office expected,' with departments having multiple failures.

The Office for Students said the reason for the continued deterioration is lower than anticipated levels of recruitment for international students.

The NAO said the rise was because of an increase in boat migrants and people claiming asylum who were previously detained under the Illegal Migration Act.

The window between discovering and exploiting a vulnerability has already narrowed to just days, and AI is expected to shorten it even further, experts said.