Speeches by Huq.

“Alistair, do you have anything to add, and on the disability point as well?”

“On the football point, I have heard locally, anecdotally, Ealing hockey club, where I represent, are finding fewer places where they can play because the FA are putting lots of money into local facilities and they are replacing it all with astroturf, which doesn’t work for hockey. You mentioned football being not a pri…”

“I have a last question for Ali. There are several organisations delivering the same objectives to the same hard-to-reach audiences—LYG, London Sport, London Youth Trust, Access Sports, StreetGames. There is a whole list of them: Chance to Shine, AC Cricket, and RFU has a thing as well. Are they all fishing from the sam…”

“Research shows that 70% of women—as Jo said—drop out in the end because of various things. It might be body-image concerns or they would rather be in all-girls training. Georgia Bell is another of these happy accidents. HHHer dad is my constituent and he texted and said that all day at school she talked about beating t…”

“You had supportive parents who can drive you around the country or whatever. A lot of my constituents are very time-poor and have multiple jobs. Those things help. What else would help?”

“Do you think that the UK has the right balance between independently owned studios and those that are US-owned or leased? We were at Warner Bros. the other day—the Harry Potter one. It was all very nice, but it is headquartered in California.”

“I am old enough to have been there the last time this question was voted on. In the spirit of Gordon Brown and his tests over the euro, we applied tests of our own on capacity, carbon commitments, minimising noise and environmental impacts, and ensuring benefits for the whole UK. Can the Minister tell me whether those …”

“Brilliant, thanks—so no overlooking outer London from now on, I hope. I can tell you that for “Barbie”, the Dua Lipa pop video scene was filmed in North Acton.”

“The company that went under said it was more due to the American strike than to a particular contract, but contract changes like that do not help small companies and few suppliers.”

“Are the Government confident that the hoped-for increase in independent film production will be catered for by our existing infrastructure, or will you incentivise new studios? It feels as it everything is expanding. Is it a case of build it and they will come, or are we going to reach a saturation point?”

“The previous Government did that, not us.”

“Leavesden is a big ecosystem, so they can do it all in-house when that goes. I want to make a little plea. Chris, I know you said that it feels in the Rhondda that everything is in London or the south-east or, at best, Cardiff. Outer London is not the same as the streets paved with gold in central London. As a constitu…”

“On our trip last week, we found out something that seems a bit sad. There are other things on the site of Ealing Studios. There is a make-up school, the MetFilm school—lots of other stuff going on and they all feed into one another. I know that the Tour de France does not sound like high-end TV, but it is something goi…”

“It does feel as if everyone is in expansion mode. I think there is a big thing coming in Barking. They are expanding where we were last week. I think at Ealing Studios—with the longest continuous filmmaking—the site dates from 1902, and it has been making talkies since 1931.”

“Well, Ealing thrives. It is doubling, I think. I went to see the plans. I think an earlier extant thing was dumped. It was going to be on CGI, but instead they want more and more stages.”

“Yes, we have seen that as well.”

“I know the soundtrack but I have never seen the film—”

“Yes, the iPlayer and 4oD, where you can watch a lot of historical Channel 4 and BBC things for free. Would you ever consider such a thing?”

“On the archive that you mentioned, we had a lovely trip there recently, but a third of the stuff in there is not viewable by members of the public either. We know that it is very slow and laborious to digitise it, but I have just been googling a few things while I am here and they seem to be blocked, or you have to buy…”

“I have just googled two things: “Dance Craze”, which is a 2 Tone 1980s thing—you have to buy a subscription to see that—and then also “I’m British But…”, which was the first thing Gurinder Chadha did. She came and spoke to our Committee last year. I remember seeing it at a Southbank screening. It is blocked; it says, “…”