Speeches by Hinds.

“Obviously there are further discussions, analysis and understanding to come, but what impact do you expect this legislation to have on actual volumes of secondary ticket sales?”

“Good luck, Jon. We have been there.”

“Okay, thank you. On secondary ticketing, you mentioned, en passant, the point about extraterritoriality. Isn’t that quite fundamental? If you ban something in Britain but you cannot ban it elsewhere—there are parallel debates about online gambling and so on—to what extent do you cut out secondary ticketing as opposed t…”

“That is helpful to know. Do you think in this sector that the Employment Rights Bill will have some impact on the structure of employment itself? In other words, one thing you might expect is to have fewer individual events employing people or venues employing people and more contract staff, more staff agency. Is that …”

“Are you awaiting a response?”

“Have you asked the question?”

“Have you had a conversation with the Government about what happens if you have a piece of employment that isn’t actually long enough to be the reference period and, therefore, what that individual’s rights are? If they work for, say, three weeks on a zero-hours contract, maybe 40-plus hours in those weeks, it is a busy…”

“This is about trying to understand what the effect of the Employment Rights Bill will be, because it will be different. If you have a one-off event, you do not even get to the length of the reference period, do you, to be able to measure it? If you are in a venue, you will have seasonality, like busy periods, not busy …”

“Bless, thank you. Going back to the employment question. Can you come back to basics and say, typically for events, what the employment contract is? Is it with a venue typically or with an event, like a one-off or an occasional entity, or is it typically with a temp agency, if you are the individual? I do not know who …”

“In which case, Chair, I shall defer to that moment.”

“That I am not so sure about. Just to—”

“I think I can give you some reassurance, Jon.”

“I will add that 4,000 of my constituents have signed this petition. I have also heard directly from hundreds of them by email in response to my own petition. We should listen to all these voices. A lot has changed since 2003, but not my opposition to digital ID. The Government say that it would be non-compulsory, but i…”

“In the previous year, 100,000 people were claiming asylum. The Labour Government were talking about ID cards to tackle illegal immigration, but they soon started talking about using them to tackle all sorts of other things as well. In time, it became apparent that there was a huge amount of disagreement among Ministers…”

“It really is not ideal to have the body responsible for upholding standards in qualifications inside a Department that will be judged on how many people it gets through to passing those qualifications. It was not ideal when it was at the Department for Education; it is even less ideal now that it is at the Department f…”

“9. What recent progress Skills England has made on its priorities.”

“rose—”

“You have 18 minutes.”

“There is nowhere in the DFE budget from which £6 billion could possibly come other than the core schools budget, so either SEN funding is being cut, the core schools budget is being cut—that implies 5% per head—or the Secretary of State has an explicit agreement with the Chancellor for the money to come from somewhere …”

“Professor Francis was clear that the EBacc grouping should be kept in the progress 8 measure under the heading “Academic Breadth”. The Government have overruled the review, which is quite a big thing to do. The Secretary of State herself used to be a student of modern languages. Have they learned nothing from their ter…”