Speeches by Hinds.

“Meaning? You can define “needed most” in lots of ways. What is meant in this context?”

“That is fair enough. I want to come back to the famous 670,000, which is sticking in all our minds from today. It would be really helpful—again this might be something to follow-up in writing—to know any breakdown or segmentation there is of that 670,000. You might know the answer to this right now, but how much of it …”

“I am not passing any judgment on whether it is a good thing or a bad thing; I am just trying to understand. It means you would lead on the criteria. This fund is a lot smaller than the old fund. You said the main difference was something else, but the main difference is that it is smaller than the fund that was. You ar…”

“A question for Mark and Fazima. We have talked about housing targets. Is there a target, either numeric or generic, from the perspective of the government estate overall or from the perspective of heritage assets, regardless of whether they are public sector or not, for hotel accommodation or the development of other t…”

“Even in central London which is where—”

“I know what has happened. I know we are still expecting Petty France to go, but there is still a lot of very high value prime real estate owned by HMG that could be a hotel. Obviously, you want to get the best value for sale subject to The Green Book but is there any drive specifically to develop our capacity and capab…”

“To set the scene, Euan, could you just say what all the different visa and social security requirements are and the different levels of paperwork?”

“Was it a voluntary response?”

“So it was not a sample. You would have to agree that that probably exaggerates the effect because, when you ask a question and it is a voluntary response, you will always hear from the people who feel most strongly about an issue rather than a representative sample. It would be helpful to get those actual numbers. Do a…”

“Can any of you summarise what the difference is pre and post leaving the European Union in terms of the volume of paperwork? Bear in mind, of course, that we were never a member of Schengen. Some of these things may not be entirely obvious, but is anyone in a position to say?”

“How does it work in reverse? What is the difference in the regime for European-domiciled performers coming to the UK?”

“I am sure we have the ONS data, but it would be helpful to perhaps follow up on that. You mentioned that Equity had done a survey and half of its members said they had lost work. How did you conduct that survey?”

“Working here?”

“Moving back to outbound—this may be quite difficult to quantify and I am sure it will vary for different sectors and, of course, every act is different—but we talk about the EU sometimes as if everybody is going to be visiting 27 different countries on their tour whereas some just go to Germany. The question is: how di…”

“That was my question.”

“Moving back to outbound—this may be quite difficult to quantify and I am sure it will vary for different sectors and, of course, every act is different—but we talk about the EU sometimes as if everybody is going to be visiting 27 different countries on their tour whereas some just go to Germany. The question is: how di…”

“That was my question.”

“Working here?”

“You mentioned Dublin. How does the common travel area play into all this?”

“The common travel area is with the island of Ireland. For many different purposes such as trade, the movement of people, and various health and social aspects—lots of different ways—there are exceptions to many rules for the Republic of Ireland. I just wondered, for your band that is choosing Dublin, if it is easier to…”