Speeches by Hinds.
Every Hansard contribution by Damian Hinds this parliament, most recent first. Back to the MP page for the headline figures and analysed positions.
Showing 21–40 of 1,373 contributions · most-recent first
| Date | Debate & contribution | Words |
|---|---|---|
| 2 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “At all?” | 2 |
| 2 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “Who of everybody else do we think will suffer the most?” | 11 |
| 2 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “I am glad you mentioned Switzerland, because that highlights another question. There is an interesting intellectual and policy question about where you want to end up, but there is also an interesting question about what happens by just making a change, wherever you go. Natasha was jokingly referring to what happens wh…” | 205 |
| 2 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “Am I right in remembering that, with the Swiss example, part of it was to do with radio playing in businesses? So, all households and businesses became liable for this fee. Maybe it was TV and radio, but there was quite a brouhaha about businesses. And you have got to make those decisions, right? You have got to say, “…” | 85 |
| 2 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “Answerable to who?” | 3 |
| 2 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “Again, that might be a cultural difference. In this country, I think that we are absolutely used to saying the Government make decisions, and if the people do not like the decisions that the Government make, the people kick out the Government. You are right—there are degrees of directness in democratic accountability. …” | 63 |
| 2 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “It is like a European Commission.” | 6 |
| 2 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “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.” | 55 |
| 2 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “Sorry, but let’s not lose sight of the fact that one of the most trusted sources in the world is the BBC. It is absolutely right that there is editorial independence, but we are a system where the Government set the charter, right?” | 43 |
| 2 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “Sorry to rush you, but of course there is a difference with some of those tech plays that you spoke about, because on terrestrial TV you cannot do programmatic advertising fully. That may change over time. In theory, if you can start doing the same targeting on telly and on radio as you can with online advertising, tha…” | 84 |
| 2 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “Rob, you mentioned UKTV. If the BBC were to introduce advertising into its core UK offering that people recognise as the BBC, what would that do to the size of the advertising spend market? To what extent would it grow it? If it does not grow it, where does that spend come from?” | 53 |
| 2 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “You mentioned having a core PSB offering and a separate subscription service. You also talked about BritBox—that was what BritBox did, was it not?” | 24 |
| 2 Jun 2026 | Milburn Review: Interim Report “This is an important piece of work from Alan Milburn, but what principles will underpin the Government’s approach? Does the Minister think that, other things being equal, if we increase the cost of employing people, then that will come at the expense of jobs? Does he think that, with slack in the labour market, if we d…” | 99 |
| 2 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “They have a referendum for everything. They would have a referendum about a Toblerone.” | 14 |
| 2 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “Although you are right that it did not match up to expectations or hopes in the domestic market, there was not a colossal public backlash against that idea of, “If you want to watch ‘The Good Life’ from the 1970s, it is on this subscription channel.” Q109 I notice that iPlayer now has its own little classics section, s…” | 106 |
| 2 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “Very few people know that, though. More people knew what BritBox was. BritBox had ITV and Channel 4 branding, but it had heavy BBC branding, if I recall correctly.” | 29 |
| 2 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “But it is slightly different to talk about an ad/no ad thing. Unless I was really bad at looking, I think it was the case that you could get only a certain amount of BBC stuff going back only so far on iPlayer, and for the “classics”, you got BritBox. In covid, a lot of us, or our children, discovered classic comedy, b…” | 86 |
| 2 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “You mentioned having a core PSB offering and a separate subscription service. You also talked about BritBox—that was what BritBox did, was it not?” | 24 |
| 2 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “Sorry to rush you, but of course there is a difference with some of those tech plays that you spoke about, because on terrestrial TV you cannot do programmatic advertising fully. That may change over time. In theory, if you can start doing the same targeting on telly and on radio as you can with online advertising, tha…” | 84 |
| 2 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “They have a referendum for everything. They would have a referendum about a Toblerone.” | 14 |