Dido Harding
Conservative member of The House of Lords and former chair of NHS Test and Trace.
Dido Harding has tabled an amendment to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill that would make frontier AI developers report when their models are used to break into regulated networks, ahead of the Lords report stage on 26 October 2026.
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Tabled a frontier AI incident-reporting amendment
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences: Peers table AI amendments to cyber billBackground
Dido Harding, Baroness Harding of Winscombe, has sat in The House of Lords as a Conservative life peer since September 2014. Her current legislative focus is incident reporting: her amendments to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill would extend reporting duties to frontier AI developers and ADD voluntary reporting of incidents, threats and near misses.
Before the Lords she spent seven years as chief executive of TalkTalk Group, leaving in 2017. She became chair of NHS Improvement in October 2017 and was appointed in May 2020 to lead the government's coronavirus test and trace programme. She has sat on the Lords Industry and Regulators Committee since January 2025, which gives her a standing seat in scrutiny of how regulators work.
Harding wants AI developers to report hacks
Peers tabled AI amendments to the bill ahead of its Lords report stage on 26 October. Harding's would require developers of frontier AI models to notify the regulated organisation and its regulator when their model has been used to gain unauthorised access to, or interfere with, a regulated network, with penalties for failing to report. She has also tabled clauses on voluntary reporting of incidents, threats and near misses.
Harding is amending a measure that already reaches well beyond its original targets: at second reading, peers saw managed service providers and data centres pulled into its scope, and committee stage in the Lords followed in July. The Scottish Parliament gave its consent on 7 October. Like the other peers' proposals, Harding's amendments may be withdrawn before a vote.
