Speeches by Hinds.

“Through technology.”

“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.”

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

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

“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…”

“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…”

“That is what I just said.”

“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…”

“As always, it is a great pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mr Vickers. I thank and commend Mr Beckinsale and the other 114,948 petitioners, including 611 in my constituency of East Hampshire, for bringing this very important subject to Westminster Hall today. After all that we have heard today, we might ask, “Why? Why …”

“The hon. Gentleman and other Ministers have constantly come back to the point about the higher rateable value commercial premises, saying that they include distribution centres for online giants. What proportion are they of the total?”

“What about the corn laws?”

“But some of that happens anyway because of the way that national governing bodies work and how they target their programmes. There does tend to be some up-weighting towards disadvantaged areas.”

“That covers it well, I guess. We have a curriculum review going on at the moment. What are your hopes and expectations about what that will deliver?”

“There was a trend back in the 2000s where lots of kids took a half GCSE in PE. Are you expecting that to return?”

“Very good.”

“We cannot just wish it into being, we cannot assume it or assert it, and we cannot legislate for it: esteem is in the eye of the esteemer and parity of esteem is earned. In technical and vocational education and training, that requires a clear and understandable set of qualifications with high standards and specificati…”

“Which hoops is the hon. Gentleman looking forward to the removal of?”

“Ali, presumably you have given evidence to that review. If you are at liberty to divulge, what have you asked for and do you expect to get it?”