Speeches by Hinds.

“Yes, but you would expect to see the time come down?”

“Just give us a rough idea of how much you would expect it to come down?”

“Good. You did, though.”

“Chairman, in your independent report on workplace culture and behaviour, there is a finding that there was some doubt, some cynicism, among some of the corporation’s employees about the ability of management to make the changes necessary in workplace culture and behaviour. Some things were recommended, and you agreed t…”

“Okay, but the question is the same: when do the 12 months end?”

“I am going to come back to you, Dr Shah. On the question of high-profile people exiting the organisation, another thing the independent report talks about is succession planning. All organisations have to have succession planning. Ultimately it is the responsibility of the chair and the non-execs to make sure that the …”

“Who is deciding whether it is substantive?”

“I do not want to cut you off, but let me cut you off. You say there is confidence in how a complaint will be handled. In the Wallace case, one of the issues that came up in the investigation was that complaints made against him were not always put to him; he may not even have known about some of them at the time. Is pa…”

“And what—”

“I need to draw something slightly more out of you, if I may, and then I am done. When you say, “we are doing that work”, how does that manifest? What is the output?”

“How does that manifest for presenters—for the people on screen?”

“On that 12-month process—”

“Is there a succession plan for your top level of so-called talent? For each individual, is there an alternative?”

“22. If she will meet with representatives of the farming industry to discuss the potential impact of changes to agricultural property relief and business property relief on that sector.”

“Given the Prime Minister’s clear commitment to growth that benefits every community in every corner of the UK, his Ministers will no doubt be disturbed at polling showing that four fifths of farmers have postponed or delayed investment since the Budget. Is it not time for a rethink of this policy—if not on grounds of f…”

“There were five major expansions of early years education and childcare entitlement under the last Government; what the Minister has announced today would have been our sixth. But since we formed this policy, the new Government have made a massive increase in the tax on jobs. When will Ministers next publish their asse…”

“I am sad to say that the number of payroll employees in this country has fallen by 149,000 in the past year. We now have unemployment inching up towards 5%, with youth unemployment much higher than that. Why do I mention that in the context of a debate about hospitality? It is because a disproportionate number of jobs—…”

“Indeed. There is a review of the curriculum, a curriculum assessment, going on at the moment. Would it be fair to assume that you would be looking to that review to guarantee a certain amount of playtime in the traditional little break and big break?”

“We started this session with Natasha giving us Frank Dobson’s definition of play, and later we heard about Lloyd George’s. I think both those definitions included the word “natural”. Do critics ever accuse you of over-engineering the problem, in that play does come naturally to children and there have been many generat…”

“You say “addictive by design”. If you are a game designer, or are indeed inventing a new sport, you want it to be good. You want people to want to come back to it, so to some extent all good activities are compelling. Are there particular features of certain video games that you think are a problem? People talk about l…”