Speeches by Hinds.

“I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for letting the House know that the new Labour party still rejects synthetic phonics, which has the most remarkable depth of evidence behind it, in favour of its fashionable, progressive policies. This is why I say that all the progress achieved by our reforms is at imminent risk. La…”

“I am sure that today Labour MPs will cheer what they see as the final demise of the Gove-Gibb reforms, but the Bill before us reverses far further back than that. If this Bill passes in anything close to its current form, it will be as if Lord Adonis was never the Schools Minister and Lord Blunkett had never sat in the…”

“There obviously has been a lot of money sloshing around. You used the term “arms race”, but you might call it a land grab. We have even heard the parallel of the South Sea bubble: not everybody is watching all of these programmes and there are very high production values, very high production costs. Obviously, if that …”

“Not on that point.”

“There is obviously a lot of consideration, a lot of benefits to the UK economy and society from your industry. There is employment, there is export earnings, and then there are important cultural benefits both to domestic audiences and, we feel, as part of our projection in the world. I wondered which of those things—t…”

“Is the mental health support in schools that the Minister just mentioned the same as or different from the plan for mental health support teams in schools that was already being rolled out by the previous Government?”

“You have to change for the dubbing anyway.”

“I think you are right. I would love more kids to be studying computer science. You talk about the difficulty of finding teachers to teach AI; computer science itself is actually very difficult to recruit teachers for because of course there are massive job opportunities in your industry and elsewhere. The question I wa…”

“My final question related to that: where does all this leave the public service broadcaster? All of them in some ways have been in partnerships with the big streamers, but you mentioned amazing content like “Mr Bates”, which I cannot imagine originating from a multinational based in the United States. What does all thi…”

“Would you point to a year in the future where you project that for telly in general it will no longer be viable to produce content, programmes, entertainment shows specifically, for a country the size of ours?”

“How much does it matter where the investment ultimately comes from? In other words, should we worry that so much British high-end television is made with American money?”

“Does the hon. Gentleman know by how much the number of teachers in this country increased during the last Parliament?”

“It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mrs Harris. I thank the Chair of the Select Committee, the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (Jamie Stone), for introducing this debate today. This petition has succeeded already in a very important way: it has brought this debate to Westminster Hall. It is …”

“What does the hon. Gentleman think should happen with free breakfast clubs in secondary schools?”

“I will help the hon. Gentleman: it was a lot more than 6,500.”

“May I suggest to the Government that this subject really warrants a full-day debate and not just a statement with questions and answers? For now, however, may I ask about one straightforward matter? Will the Minister look carefully at the relatively small number of places, including East Hampshire, with a planning area…”

“The Minister likes to talk about inheritances, but if she checks the record, she will discover that prison overcrowding was higher in 2008, 2009 and 2010 than it was in 2024. It is true that we brought back longer sentences for the worst offenders. That was the right thing to do. It is also true that crime came down. T…”

“When the Minister’s other noble Friend—the distinguished Labour peer Lord Sainsbury—conducted his landmark review of technical and vocational qualifications, he found that they were not only multitudinous and heavily overlapping but had become divorced to a large extent from the very sectors of industry that they were …”

“Of course, there has been a huge increase in the number of teaching assistants over the past 14 years, but the hon. Member is right that there are particular issues for children with special educational needs, which I will come on to. The Government estimate that there will be 37,000 fewer children in private schools a…”

“I rise to speak to new clause 8, and to refer to clauses 47 to 49. Clearly, just six or so months in, we will not have seen the full effects of these measures, but we will have started to see them. We will have heard whether there are concerns from faith leaders, and what the early effects are on the number of applicat…”