Mr. Liam Herrick:

We have not seen any proposals yet for what is the Government's intention for the design of the office. As a basic principle from a rule of law perspective, it will have enforcement powers. We believe that requires it to have a certain degree of independence from bodies it may have a direct line management or commercial relationship with. That would lean in our view to have significant levels of operational and regulatory independence from Government Departments, for example, or bodies in the process of developing artificial intelligence technology. We need to see the Government's intention. We have no insight as to what it has mind, whether it is to be an agency of a Department or one set up at arm's length with significant protections in its leadership and decision-making.