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That's all for today from the Politics Hub.

Earlier this morning, Science Secretary Peter Kyle told Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips that updates on the winter fuel payments would likely be coming in the autumn.

The Conservatives' Chris Philp said the proposed Chinese embassy in east London should not be built.

And SNP leader John Swinney was unclear on how he got his prediction for the recent byelection so wrong.

Scroll down to read it as it happened.

Earlier this morning, shadow home secretary Chris Philp spoke to Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips.

He was asked about the fact that the Tory party attempted to disown themselves from Liz Truss last week.

Philp was working as a Treasury minister at the time, and it was briefed he may have been responsible for some of the more unpopular policies in the disastrous mini-budget.

Asked by Trevor about this, Philp says books about the time were correct in suggesting he argued against some of the spending plans.

The combination of tax cuts and increased spending in the mini-budget are what spooked markets, as they had no guarantee the UK government would be able to pay the debts it was taking out.

"I opposed the way that it was constructed - I was arguing for spending restraint," Philp says.

"Those warnings were sadly not listened to. Obviously, I was bound by collective responsibility, as you know."

This is the duty of ministers not to disagree with the decisions the government has made as a whole.

Asked why he didn't resign, Philp says he felt it was better to argue the case "internally" to control spending.

Appointment reminders, invitations to health screenings and test results will now be received by patients on their phones.

The government says moving to a more digital-focused NHS will mean 50 million fewer letters need to be sent out by the health service, saving an estimated 拢200m over the next three years.

Instead, under the new plans, millions of people will be notified about appointments and other important notices via the NHS app on their phone or digital device.

The app is set to become the go-to method for the NHS to communicate with people, the Department of Health and Social Care said.

The changes will be backed by more than 拢50m investment. It will see a predicted 270 million messages sent through the app this year, an increase of around 70 million on the last financial year, the government announced.

Wes Streeting has said this is all about modernising, as the NHS "feels so 20th century".

SNP leader John Swinney is speaking to Trevor Phillips this morning, after his party failed to win the Holyrood byelection in Hamilton last week.

His words before the election - that it was a two horse race between the SNP and Reform - are put to the SNP leader.

Labour won the vote.

Swinney says he spotted early on that Labour's vote was "collapsing" and it did "just that".

His evidence is that Labour's vote share in the area went from 50% a year ago in the area to just over 30% last week.

Swinney says Reform "came from, frankly, nowhere" to claim a quarter of the vote.

This left his own SNP with an "improved" picture - but they "didn't improve enough to win".

Asked why the SNP is not picking up the votes Labour are losing - which are instead going to Reform, Swinney says his party needs a "compelling proposition".

He does concede his party has had a "pretty tough time" over the past few years.

Shadow home secretary Chris Philp is asked by Trevor Phillips for the Conservative Party's stance on the proposed Chinese embassy in London.

Concerns in the White House about the project have been reported in The Sunday Times today.

Philp says he agrees with the United States - and his party thinks the embassy is a "security risk".

"In government, the Conservatives were very clear.

"We should not be allowing the Chinese to build the super embassy, it is likely to become, a base for their pan-European espionage activities."

Philp highlights the proposed site for its proximity to a number of critical data centres and cables connecting the City of London to Canary Wharf - and concerns this could be intercepted.

Last week, Sky News deputy political editor Sam Coates found out that AI will lie in its results - and deny it has fabricated evidence.

It is a phenomenon known as hallucinating.

Asked about this, Science Secretary Peter Kyle says: "It's a really worrying thing, it is.

"And that's why people need to understand that AI is not flawless and that AI does lie because it's based on human characteristics.

"Now it is getting more precise as we move forward, It's getting more powerful as we move forward.

"But as with every single technology that comes into society, you can only safely use it and wisely use it by understanding how it works. 

"And that's why people shouldn't think that AI is just like a search engine. Actually it works very, very differently."

Science Secretary Peter Kyle is asked by Trevor Phillips about where the reported 拢86bn for R&D he is getting is coming from.

The secretary of state says it is part of budget worked out by the government at the end of last year, and will be 拢86bn over the course of the next three years or so.

Asked how the UK is finding more money, Kyle says: "Rachel raised money in taxes in the autumn, we are now allocating it per department.

"But the key thing is we are going to be investing record amounts of money, record amounts of money into the innovations of the future. 

"Just bear in mind that how Apple turned itself around when Steve Jobs came back to Apple, they were 90 days from insolvency.

"That's the kind of situation that we had when we came into office."

Whether ministers will start wearing black turtle necks and giving snazzy press conferences remains to be seen - as does any turn around in growth.

 There has been a lot of speculation that we could get more detail on the government's U-turn on the winter fuel payment cut.

With the spending review on Wednesday, it seemed a pretty safe bet to assume something would be forthcoming then.

But Science Secretary Peter Kyle is careful about his words when Trevor Phillips asks.

"These issues are going to be dealt with in the run-up to the autumn where these decisions are going to be taken and announced," he says.

This appears to be saying we won't find out more till the budget later this year - it's normally held late October or early November

Kyle goes on: "But this is a spending review that's going to set the overall spending constraints for government for the next period... for the next three years. 

"So you're sort of talking about two separate issues at the moment."

Asked for clarity, the secretary of state says: "I think what you're going to see is the overall spending constraints and allowances for each government department, and then each department's then going to start talking about how it's going to allocate those."

This seems like a slight offshoring of the debate on winter fuel to other departments.

To be fair to him, it's not his remit, but it means questions will rain down on Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall in the coming days.

In his first question to Science and Technology Secretary Peter Kyle, Trevor Phillips asks him about the story on the front of The Sunday Times.

This is a piece about the Americans apparently having concerns about the proposed massive Chinese embassy in East London.

Issues include its proximity to the City of London and Canary Wharf financial hubs, and the potential for things like phone and internet lines to be compromised.

In response, Kyle says such issues will be dealt with "assiduously" - carefully - as part of the planning process.

He claims the government deals with embassies and such issues "all the time".

Pushed on whether the fact it's the Americans and the White House raising the issues, Kyle says the UK and US share intelligence and the British government will always provide a "fulsome" response to the other side of the Atlantic.

"It's going through planning - these are issues that will be dealt with in that process," he says.