Speeches by Hinds.

“And the economy and education—everything. That is the English constitution.”

“I am not sure they mean, “I just want someone to randomly decide how much my licence fee should be and me to have no control over it.””

“But do they mean on setting the terms of the charter, or do they mean on individual editorial decisions? I think that people rightly get very sensitive about individual editorial decisions. They do not want politicians anywhere near deciding what should be in the news or what should be the storyline in a soap opera.”

“Marina, you said earlier that most BBC content is still watched on linear, but I think that is less true the younger you go down the age groups—in fact, over time, the proportion is shifting away. I want to come back to the conversation you just started on the iPlayer. There is some conversation at the moment, includin…”

“Marina, you said earlier that most BBC content is still watched on linear, but I think that is less true the younger you go down the age groups—in fact, over time, the proportion is shifting away. I want to come back to the conversation you just started on the iPlayer. There is some conversation at the moment, includin…”

“It is an interesting question—whether three to five destinations at scale really is a stable equilibrium, and why there would not be just one.”

“It is an interesting question—whether three to five destinations at scale really is a stable equilibrium, and why there would not be just one.”

“We grew up with variety until very recently, and the situation you have just described is not variety; it is bingeing. Maybe I am just being overly nostalgic. Is there a prospect that we might decide that what we had before was pretty good?”

“Let me come on to that. If you had the super-PSB streamer, and you then had Netflix, Apple and Prime, all of which show their own stuff and some PSB stuff, and in some cases, do some cross-selling of other commercial services, and over it all you also had YouTube—or ubiquitous-tube—is that a stable equilibrium?”

“My final question is to you both. In this crazy world we live in, with infinite choice and daily brain overload, do you think that we might find people turning back to a renewed demand for channels, where somebody else has done the work for me?”

“Let me come on to that. If you had the super-PSB streamer, and you then had Netflix, Apple and Prime, all of which show their own stuff and some PSB stuff, and in some cases, do some cross-selling of other commercial services, and over it all you also had YouTube—or ubiquitous-tube—is that a stable equilibrium?”

“We grew up with variety until very recently, and the situation you have just described is not variety; it is bingeing. Maybe I am just being overly nostalgic. Is there a prospect that we might decide that what we had before was pretty good?”

“My final question is to you both. In this crazy world we live in, with infinite choice and daily brain overload, do you think that we might find people turning back to a renewed demand for channels, where somebody else has done the work for me?”

“You still need to be price competitive. The visits are great, but you probably need to attract people. Finally, coming back to the point about ministerial attendance, not so much at motor racing or football, as it is always easy to get attendance for those things, but particularly at business and trade events, you said…”

“In terms of market share, it is difficult to measure these things precisely for events, but it is probably fair to say that, #despiteBrexit, we still do well compared to other European nations on major events. In the middle east and in south-east and eastern Asia, there is a lot of growth, and we may well be losing glo…”

“Can I come back to competitiveness in general, including price competitiveness, which Liz talked about and, Michael, you also mentioned? I think you effectively said, yes, we cost more but people still keep buying from us anyway. I think you would probably agree that there is only so far you can stretch that argument. …”

“Give me an example of what that means in practice. What could be different if you had the ideal strategy and the golden thread?”

“We have talked a few times about how everything is pretty good—very good perhaps—but we just lack a strategy and do not have a golden thread. If you had the ideal strategy that had a golden thread, what would be different?”

“Just nail it down. Be a bit more specific. What would this strategy give us IRL?”

“Minister, what role do you think major events play in promoting and supporting British soft power and development of international relationships? Assuming it is a positive one, how could we make more of it?”