Speeches by Smith.

“Do you see yourselves as the voice of the sector in this negotiation? You seem reluctant to agree, but I think that is fine.”

“If we step outside the perimeter of some of the big events that we have into what has become known as Zone Ex, which is a concept that lots of people understand but there is not really a common definition, do the Government have a definition of Zone Ex? If not, should they?”

“Do you work closely enough with her to give us an idea of when we might expect some further progress?”

“Baroness Hodge talked about philanthropy and increasing funding through that means. As you place greater emphasis on that, how will you prevent it from benefiting just the big-ticket, famous and well‑connected organisations?”

“I think you have this report on strategy coming out in May. Will you be far enough advanced in your thinking by then to have some detail in that?”

“I have a couple of further questions on funding. Baroness Hodge proposed that commercially successful work supported by public subsidy could contribute by being recycled back into the system. I think you accepted that in principle. Some of the sector bodies, particularly in theatre, have warned that that can deter risk…”

“You are looking at how it might work in practice. What can you tell us about how that principle might be workable in practice, and what conditions you might put on a grant?”

“Tariff preferences are one thing, and I know we cannot solve this problem alone, but we must do whatever we can to put pressure on the Israeli Government to stop. The Israeli Government are using the fog of war in Iran to make a Palestinian state unviable by an expansion of these settlements. What more do they have to …”

“8. What diplomatic steps her Department is taking to oppose the expansion of illegal settlements in the west bank.”

“I think the Minister has slightly brushed over Lords amendment 41 on the agent of change principle. This is an excellent Bill, but I do think it is disappointing that the Government are rejecting Lords amendment 41. If we want to properly protect our beloved music venues, pubs and cultural institutions, we need measure…”

“What is your view of the idea that the BBC has put forward for an enhanced tax relief for UK culturally relevant content?”

“Is 35 not a bit high?”

“You can give us ideas on how to fund it if you like.”

“Giles, TikTok has talked about helping teenagers engage with educational and informative content. Can you make an estimate of what proportion of the content on TikTok you could describe as that?”

“Morning. Louise, you mentioned the young audiences content fund. I think both of you have called for some version of that fund to be reintroduced, and also for some kind of tax reliefs. Of the two, which intervention is likely to have the most impact?”

“You have both talked glowingly about the fund. Of the two interventions, would you say the YAC fund is more likely to stimulate production?”

“How would you fund it?”

“Did you say 18 million?”

“How can you quality assure that educational content? How do parents know it is decent content?”

“You talked earlier on about pointing users to iPlayer. I do not know if you know about the BBC initiative, “Other Side of the Story”.”