Speeches by Alaba.

“I had the pleasure of welcoming the Minister to my constituency at the weekend. Will he outline how the national wealth fund will establish partnerships in regions such as Essex, including in my constituency?”

“My final question is about diverse productions. This is one of the creative and cultural assets of this nation. How do you see your policies directed to supporting, sustaining and nurturing that part of the film ecosystem?”

“Brilliant. Three words came out to me there: competitiveness, review and stability. It is a competitive marketplace. As the Minister said, we want the UK to maintain its international competitive advantage. How regularly should we be checking the benchmark around tax incentives?”

“I want to speak to you about assurances. What kind of assurances does the industry have on existing tax incentives and whether the Government are committed to maintaining the incentives or indeed increasing them? I would like to hear from you and Alastair on that.”

“Thank you, Chair, and welcome, Minister and Alastair. “Barbie” is an interesting one; I wanted to go to “Barbie” with my 11-year-old daughter, but she did not want me to go, because it was not really cool for her dad to follow so I needed to go by myself.”

“Brilliant. Alastair, is there anything you would like to come in on?”

“I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Shrewsbury (Julia Buckley) for securing this important debate and sharing the tragic loss of young Harvey. Ahead of this debate, I met Gillian and John McGrath, constituents of mine in Southend East and Rochford, whose daughter was tragically killed in March 2009 by a newly qualifi…”

“I want to speak to you about assurances. What kind of assurances does the industry have on existing tax incentives and whether the Government are committed to maintaining the incentives or indeed increasing them? I would like to hear from you and Alastair on that.”

“Thank you, Chair, and welcome, Minister and Alastair. “Barbie” is an interesting one; I wanted to go to “Barbie” with my 11-year-old daughter, but she did not want me to go, because it was not really cool for her dad to follow so I needed to go by myself.”

“Brilliant. Alastair, is there anything you would like to come in on?”

“My final question is about diverse productions. This is one of the creative and cultural assets of this nation. How do you see your policies directed to supporting, sustaining and nurturing that part of the film ecosystem?”

“Brilliant. Three words came out to me there: competitiveness, review and stability. It is a competitive marketplace. As the Minister said, we want the UK to maintain its international competitive advantage. How regularly should we be checking the benchmark around tax incentives?”

“I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Stroud (Dr Opher) for securing this important and informative debate. I will start with some statistics. Over the last seven years, Southend has seen one of the highest increases in England in the number of children living with obesity, with 22.7% of five-years-olds starting school…”

“May I invite the Leader of the House to commend the hard work of the One Love Project in my constituency? It is a community-run non-referral service that supports those most in need, including the street homeless. Its provides food, warm showers, clothing, clothes-washing facilities, sleeping bags—the list goes on. It …”

“I thank my hon. Friend for securing the debate. Just outside my constituency of Southend East and Rochford, we have an issue in one of the main market towns, which, let us say, does not have the friendliest parking. People visit the local library for its services but also to apply for blue badges. Parking enforcement i…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for securing this debate. One in seven shops are empty—I have noticed that in my constituency, and the situation is similar in many constituencies across the country. Many owner-operators, like some of my hon. Friend’s constituents here today, want to get their town centre going again. They know …”

“If a production did not do as well, did not sell as well, how do you typically within the industry approach it? Do you have the capability to sell that content elsewhere to other regions?”

“Netflix have told us that they offer quite flexible deals with producers. How does that sit with you? Does that chime with you?”

“If you carried out a production that went particularly well for a streamer, is it scalable in terms of the reward and the benefits to yourself?”

“In a scenario of subsequent seasons, how do you feel as a producer? Do you feel empowered in terms of approaching subsequent seasons?”