Speeches by Hinds.

“I was trying not to put words into our panel’s mouths but one question might be, yes, do you have some sort of—”

“There you go. She said it.”

“You are right. People do that.”

“In this debate about opt-in, opt-out on AI and copyright, it could apply differently in different sectors. When you hear the opt-in, opt-out, it sounds like people have a view about whether their material should be used or they can stop it being used. Actually, in some senses, in music, for example, it does not sound l…”

“Is that how it would manifest, basically, “Go to The Comedy Store. Here is a ticket,” or is it something else?”

“I can, yes. Social prescribing is a big thing. It comes up quite a lot more, probably, for all of us in our constituencies. People see great potential for it. It has no national framework or co-ordination. It is probably not the first thing that people think about at the GP surgery. Comedy is probably not the first thi…”

“I guess that is the point. As with music, potentially live experiences become more valuable, not less. In a world where so much stuff is an artifice and is coming to you, the experience is going to it and interacting with other people, particularly with comedy, as with the roar of the crowd for music and sport, the lau…”

“How long do we have?”

“Back to AI, how much of a competitive threat ultimately is this? Will AI actually be funny on purpose?”

“I am talking about the scraping.”

“I should not have interrupted you. Sorry, I misunderstood what you said. Are you saying that the same remuneration system for when you write material for somebody else could be used for remuneration for your material being used by AI, even if you cannot say, “I produced this. It appeared there”?”

“There is a curriculum review—a curriculum and assessment review, technically—going on at the moment. What are your hopes for that process, and have you been given any indication of what may be in the outcome?”

“When is that?”

“Has anyone had a letter? I want to go!”

“You mentioned social prescribing. It feels like social prescribing is a huge potential reform. We tend to think of it most for working-age adults who are further away from the workforce—how you get re-engaged, and so on—but for older people, your sport in particular has huge potential for socialising, routine and all t…”

“Kate, to come to the other end of the age range, a lot of us admire Chance to Shine—the barriers you have overcome and the changes you have made in the attractiveness of cricket, and so on. What has been the secret to that success?”

“Do we know much, or enough yet, about how many kids continue with cricket into their adult life, having first experienced it through the programme?”

“I am supposed to be asking you about schools, which I will do in a moment. First, Jon, I want to pick up the bowling thing, which I find fascinating in a couple of ways. You said that you had a less visible sport, but I would note that you have about the most visible sport in the country, because every village centre t…”

“Is there not still a shortage of indoor tennis courts in this country? I do not know what the numbers are, but it feels that way, compared with other European countries and elsewhere. I know that in 2019, the LTA had a big, ambitious programme to build a lot more, but I am not sure how many have been built. It is not s…”

“The point about being able to play it later in life, compared with tennis, is quite important. I am not sure it is that well understood widely. People who are in tennis already probably understand it, but what marketing is going on to reach people who have not been playing active sport for some time?”