Speeches by Dinenage.

“Vinous, you talked about the situation in the US, but fair use is not settled in the US, is it? That is why we are seeing so many lawsuits. To what extent does that come into play?”

“The Minister is absolutely right to focus on this. I warmly welcome the reinstatement of the children and young people’s cancer taskforce. I take this opportunity to pay tribute to my constituent Charlotte Fairall, who was pivotal in the work to bring the taskforce together in the first place. Charlotte’s daughter Soph…”

“Last week we saw the launch of the China-based AI model DeepSeek knock a combined trillion dollars off tech companies’ market caps. OpenAI told the Financial Times that it has evidence that its intellectual property was used to build DeepSeek. We have talked a lot about competition, and you all talked a lot about compe…”

“Vinous, you talked about the situation in the US, but fair use is not settled in the US, is it? That is why we are seeing so many lawsuits. To what extent does that come into play?”

“Vinous, Sam Altman said on Reddit on Friday that OpenAI has been on the wrong side of history when it comes to open sourcing its technologies. Do you think it would have been more apt to say that OpenAI has been on the wrong side of history when it comes to IP infringement? How does that bode for the future?”

“I am sure the hon. Lady would also recognise that there will be sites in her constituency and beyond that were saved during the pandemic by the actions of the then Government. Some £1.57 billion in the culture recovery fund protected cultural venues up and down the country from what was potentially an existential crisi…”

“I am delighted to have the opportunity to talk about our world-leading creative industries. I listened very carefully to everything the Minister said, and there was a lot of it. I love his undoubted passion for these sectors, and I love the understanding he has for them and the really strong rhetoric he puts into his s…”

“We may be here for a long time if the Minister answers every question that I am going to ask over the next few minutes, but let us have a go. We in the Select Committee are very excited, because tomorrow the Minister will be appearing before us for the final episode of a very long-running inquiry into film and high-end…”

“I am sure that the Secretary of State agrees that our Royal Navy and RFA are the best in the world. They need to be equipped with the vessels and crew to do their job and address threats such as those I am grateful to him for articulating. He will know that Portsmouth harbour, which Gosport sits opposite, is home to th…”

“In Gosport we are facing a massive increase in our housing numbers, and planners are putting in applications to build across the very last green spaces, in the strategic gap between Gosport and Fareham, which already has air quality issues and overstretched local infrastructure. We do have an abundance of disused milit…”

“I am grateful for the Minister’s commitment to the issue. He will know that it was the cornerstone of the Select Committee’s work on grassroots music venues, and he also knows that our music ecosystem is very finely balanced. Grassroots venues are still shutting at an alarming rate, and not one of the top 10 best-selli…”

“Could the Leader of the House use her great influence to improve the tone and quality of ministerial responses in this place? On Monday, the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology responded to the question I asked on behalf of the creative industries, which are very worried about the Government’s con…”

“I am grateful for the Minister’s commitment to the issue. He will know that it was the cornerstone of the Select Committee’s work on grassroots music venues, and he also knows that our music ecosystem is very finely balanced. Grassroots venues are still shutting at an alarming rate, and not one of the top 10 best-selli…”

“Among our greatest UK exports are our culture and our creative industries, so I am keen to hear what conversations the Foreign Secretary has had with international counterparts—not only to improve the opportunity for British artists to tour, particularly post Brexit, but to take advantage of the appetite for bilateral …”

“The action plan calls for an AI sector champion in the creative industries, but what the Government really need is a creative industries champion. The Government’s copyright and AI consultation, which is so crucial for the creative industries, does not close until 25 February. One option on the table includes maintaini…”

“I welcome the Government’s putting music fans at the forefront of these consultations, although the Minister will know that I would like him to go further and have a full fan-led review of music. Meanwhile, looking at the details of these consultations, it is telling that while Ticketmaster welcomed the resale consulta…”

“But the starting point is not right; it is very heavily skewed towards the tech industry. You are proposing to take rights away and force creatives to opt back in to their own copyright. It is a bit like saying a burglar can nick all your stuff and that is all fine unless you have a sign up saying that is not okay.”

“I think they will want more than your words, Prime Minister. I think they will want to see that they are valued as much as AI.”

“It sounds to me like you are in the camp that says you prefer the foreign big tech companies over the British creative industries, but let me ask you something else. You announced members of your industrial strategy council last week. They are all very impressive, but there is not one executive representative from a co…”

“Prime Minister, you say the landscape is bleak, but it has not been for our world-leading creative industries. They have been growing at twice the rate of the rest of the economy, and I know they are a key part of your Government’s growth story. AI companies have scraped the internet of books, films and music created b…”