Speeches by Hinds.

“Our children’s use of phones and social media give us many things to worry about, but broadly speaking they are grouped into three categories. The first is about content, going from pornography and violence and the insidious effects of curated lives, influencers and celebs on our children and their sense of self-worth,…”

“Through technology.”

“It may be that Tom wants to come back on the licence fee, but I want to ask about commercial income. Your organisation has a very enviable stock of IP, from the mother brand to individual pieces of creative output. There has been a strain on licence fee income, but I think that the bigger drop last year was in commerci…”

“A lot of businesses struggle with that balance—reinvesting in the business versus dividends for shareholders.”

“Within the commercial income streams, where do you see the most promising lines of growth?”

“That is an unexpected turn to this conversation, because this topic has come up in this Committee before, and it is usually members of the Committee who say—and it is true that the licence fee situation is a bit of an outlier and there are particular questions about the number of women who are criminalised and so on be…”

“Effective.”

“Yes, but in the scheme of things, people who say, “I’m going to find BBC Verify” are—”

“And BBC One is still the biggest single vehicle, but it is a minority.”

“Dr Shah, you said the board is very exercised about this, and I am not surprised. From the point of view of the BBC’s reputation, this is awful, and today more than ever for a similar case if it had happened in the past. You talked about the distinction between opinionated news and fact-based news. Later in this sessio…”

“I am asking either of you.”

“It will be lightning quick. Of all the things that have changed in viewing and listening habits over the years, one of them is kids having their own tellies and then their own screens. One of things we have lost is watching things together. I just wonder if you think that is a trend that could ever be reversed and if i…”

“If I may ask one more— Chair: It will have to be really quick.”

“On a related but different question about the business model, in a parallel industry—the music industry—there was an enormous revolution moving away from physical format music and everyone thought the industry had been changed forever. Then it turned out it was only temporary. Downloads had replaced physical format, bu…”

“To be clear, I am optimistic, too—or certainly hopeful—because I think your role is more important than ever.”

“When you say there are unanswered questions, there are questions from the BBC—”

“I welcome what the Security Minister said about the inclusion of Iran in the enhanced tier of FIRS. Can he confirm—I hope that the ISC will look at this—that as that system operationalises, it will also cover more complex situations in which it is not as straightforward as somebody taking instruction from an organ of t…”

“Speaking of consuming things online, you love it when people come to the iPlayer or your website or some other owned property, but there is continued growth in consumers going for news as well for entertainment to social media or news aggregators. The truth is that when you ask them where they saw something, they do no…”

“I am coming to that. I am grateful to the hon. Lady—she can keep teeing me up. The Government’s second error was to fail to consider the cumulative effect of all the different cost pressures added on to schools; as well as VAT, there are also business rates, which are mentioned in the petition. There is also the increa…”

“On faith-based education, the Minister is quite right that there are large numbers of faith-based schools in the state sector. However, there are some denominations and particular religious traditions for which there are not large numbers of schools, and whose actually charge fees sometimes considerably below the avera…”