Speeches by Kane.

“I am conscious that I only have a little while before the Chair takes me off the gallery floor and puts me back into storage, so can we talk about sharing financial costs? Paragraph 3.28 says that, in helping the sharing of financial matters through forums, cost saving did not seem to come up as much as it could, and. …”

“It is the sharing I am interested in. They are the best example, but you are supporting 14 other museums, and you have dozens and dozens of other museums around the country that would benefit from that knowledge. It is about getting economies of scale and sharing best practice. What are you doing to get all that inform…”

“Cyber is about the sort of bad stuff, and we will have to help them as much as we can, but what about some of the good stuff around digitising collections? I guess that is laborious and time-consuming and can be expensive, but ultimately that is going to make the collections more accessible. What are you doing to suppo…”

“Paragraph 3.27 of the Report says that some museums and galleries “consider that DCMS could do more to help through its convening role to facilitate and support greater collaboration in tackling challenges, or by providing seed funding” to museums and galleries to “build skills and capacity”. On this Committee, we hear…”

“There are a lot of good things there. Your enthusiasm for all of this is coming through. Let us try to unpack some of that. I think my colleague Sarah is going to talk in a minute about some of the physical problems, so let me stick with cyber—let’s talk about that. I also want to talk more about cost sharing and what …”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms McVey. I approach this debate from a position of experience, because I have seen volunteering and community centres from many levels: user, volunteer, trustee, community councillor, local councillor and leader of Stirling council. I am not talking about community sp…”

“So it was a very good conversation then!”

“I am conscious that I have had a very good conversation with you, Bob. I have enjoyed it, but I wonder if Steve and Dominic want to add anything to what we have been talking about.”

“You have talked about the ability to surge production, and to go to 24-hour shifts if necessary. How long could you sustain that before it became the norm, or before it broke? Temporarily surging is not the same as moving to a new normal. This question is in relation to how you are coping with the thoughts of being at …”

“Last week, I was lucky enough to meet some of the cyber specialists who have joined the military; the military brought them in in a slightly different way. I am conscious of this because my children are teenagers at the moment. They are looking at universities and thinking about engineering, but they are also thinking …”

“Yesterday in the Public Accounts Committee, we heard from the MoD that the mix of uniform skills and industry skills is what they really celebrate. They think that works very well. I would love to hear, from a trade union point of view, how you feel about that mix of uniform and civilians working together to create the…”

“Can I ask about the speed with which we are investing in skills? The defence industrial strategy has a £180 million package of skills investment. When I went to Barrow to see what BAE was doing, it was almost like the industry is now bypassing traditional skills development and just doing that itself. In Barrow, you ar…”

“It is more about the joined-up approach of the Government. I absolutely get the safety aspect, and I think we promote that well, but if you take nuclear—we have Rosyth, Barrow and Devonport—do you feel that we have joined-up UK approach to doing skills, or do you feel that devolution can sometimes get in the way of an …”

“Is the cost to replace a weapon that you have fired the same as the cost to plan to do it?”

“As a Scottish MP, Bob, can I take you back to what you were saying about decommissioning submarines? Having been to Rosyth and seen how keen everyone is to get going with that, do you feel that delays to the DIP are compounded by the—I am not sure whether I want to use “dismissive” or “naive”—approach to defence shown …”

“Good morning; I am Chris Kane and I am also guesting from the Public Accounts Committee today. What impact are we seeing across industry from the current war in Iran?”

“I think, as we are approaching Easter, this is the one time of year when baskets are probably useful—for Easter-egg hunts and things like that.”

“I am very conscious of time, and I want to crack on and ask a couple of other questions, if that is okay. I suspect America is now firing more missiles than it was planning on buying to replace them. How is the industry thinking about the difference between its approach to steadily building a stockpile of munitions in …”

“Sir Geoffrey has talked about the graduate or youth entries into this; can we talk about the defence skills passport—this sort of smoother transfer for mid-career professionals—in moving between industries? How are you finding the Government’s approach to ensuring that the skills shortages can be filled throughout a ca…”

“Thank you. The assurance I am looking for is that you have a mechanism by which it will land on your desk if there is divergence or more of a problem around accessing medical records in Scottish GPs versus English GPs, or if there is a consistent level of recruitment from Scotland versus England in the total, or if the…”