Speeches by Hinds.

“Okay. I am not sure that I quite followed that answer in its full majesty. I am trying to understand. There has been this huge increase in audience, and you would expect—with the growth of social media, YouTube and all the rest of it—that people are going to be exposed, or can be exposed, to a much wider range of media…”

“So that counts as having engaged with the BBC once a week. Would another individual, who was a regular listener to World Service news, count the same?”

“That is a one-to-one equivalent.”

“You have to have dwell time.”

“Is the simple answer to my question “yes”?”

“So there is a sliding scale. You have an amazingly valuable asset that only maintains its value by being used. I would suggest that, for the long-term benefit to UK plc and the world, you have to maintain that brand equity. The swings in audience reach over a 10-year period that you were talking about are enormous—some…”

“Well, it depends what the user sees, right?”

“So that is not one thing.”

“Sorry—you have just done it again. Digital is the biggest—what does that mean? Do you mean being on YouTube and Facebook? Do you mean your own, owned digital channels?”

“To be clear, on the non-attributed content—”

“The NAO Report says in paragraph 2.15 that some teams were not clear what good looked like in that strategy. What does it look like?”

“Is the pipeline question that you mentioned really the fundamental point? The volume of places on apprenticeship courses match demand. They will be provided where employers want to take on apprentices and young people and others want to become apprentices, but the fundamental point is will the employment opportunities …”

“Sorry, the industry structure thing about contractors to contractors and SMEs is true for construction in general, as well as for heritage. I am trying to understand what is the additional issue that you have in your part of the sector.”

“A number of the things you have talked about on workforce issues for the heritage sector sound very like the workforce issues of the construction sector in general. What is different about your issues?”

“A number of the things you have talked about on workforce issues for the heritage sector sound very like the workforce issues of the construction sector in general. What is different about your issues?”

“Finally, if I might be allowed one more question, wearing your broader public sector stewardship hat, do you think it is right that you are effectively obliged always to sell to the highest bidder? Do you remember when County Hall was being sold? Do you remember the big question about whether it should go to the London…”

“Mark, I want to press you on something related but different, which is hotel room stock. You own some of the most valuable real estate in Europe on roads adjoining us here. You have done projects in the past. The Treasury Building in particular became a fantastic concentration of working space. I do not know what the r…”

“Another thing that comes up on property periodically and is perhaps particularly relevant to heritage sites is about offloading property, particularly to unlock housing development but it can be for other things as well. On the former REME site in Farnham and Borden, a constituency I used to represent, a substantial re…”

“There is usually nothing stopping anybody in any Government Department from working with any other. That does not mean that they necessarily get out and do it.”

“I am not saying that this is a brand new thing. That phrase has been around Government for quite some time, including when I was at the MOJ for a while. People talk about “one public estate” and sometimes in relation to meeting Government housing priorities but also just securing best value for taxpayers’ money. It sou…”