Archive exterior photograph of Portcullis House in Westminster, London
Archive image of venue, not hearing scene: Portcullis House in Westminster, London, photographed on 2011-10-18 by Tony Hisgett (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0), where the House of Commons Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee held its 2026-10-13 oral evidence session in the Grimond Room. Tony Hisgett / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0

Verified Committee Agenda and Witness Panels

On October 13, 2026, the UK House of Commons Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee held an oral evidence session at Portcullis House. The official agenda listed testing independence, early evaluator access, release holds, and mandatory reporting. Panels included independent researchers and representatives of Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Meta. Government witnesses came from the UK AI Security Institute, Cabinet Office, and Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade.

Parliamentlive published the session recording. This brief summarizes the posted agenda; the written oral-evidence transcript was unavailable when checked on October 13.

Audit Questions on Access Scope and Authority

Our editorial audit questions concern what an evaluator can inspect and how its findings affect a release. Auditors should ask whether evaluators inspect complete model checkpoints before release, how embedded evaluation arrangements differ from statutory independent audit proposals, and what authority and agent action audit records govern release holds.