Speeches by Hinds.

“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?”

“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.”

“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?”

“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…”

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

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

“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?”

“You would like to have, in the jargon, a single front door, a named contact in central Government whom I as a major event organiser could come to and who could not necessarily solve all my problems immediately but, whether it is a road closure, a security question, visa blockages or whatsoever it might be, I have a sin…”

“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?”

“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. …”

“I thank the Paymaster General for his personal work in this area. The increase in the unethical research award is a material improvement, and I am particularly thinking of the former pupils at Treloar’s. However, there is still some uncertainty in the community about the evidence that will be required to qualify for th…”

“12. What recent steps he has taken to ensure that people infected and affected by contaminated blood are compensated.”

“Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. It is a pleasure to have heard the last few speeches, which made very important points, but even with five minutes, time is still short for me. I will speak briefly about a couple of aspects of social media and mobile phones. On social media, let us get on with it. We have had this issu…”

“I think that would try Madam Deputy Speaker’s patience. Today is the day that we can take action on those two points.”

“That is because they think they are all going to get some of the financial benefits.”

“Hang on; you say if it is not there then we are censors. There are negative freedoms and positive freedoms, aren’t there? You do not necessarily have to actually censor something to not nurture it, or to make it not possible. Sir Nicholas, I think you were going to speak.”

“I am sorry; I should not interrupt.”

“Is that one of your published principles—your stated principles in your standard terms, for example?”