Speeches by Bryant.

“Just before you do that, I might take a look at it, because I am not looking forward to this bit. Obviously there are things that stand. You have been a bit critical that we have not said anything more about tax reliefs but, to be honest, we felt that we said what we needed to say on tax relief, for instance in film an…”

“You know what I am talking about. It is a shock to everyone.”

“Yes, I think it is. Every Government Minister who ever sits before a Select Committee would always love to have twice as much money to invest in everything, and there are areas where we still have a great deal of work to do. I think we have identified the key sectors, which I see as a spectrum in the creative industrie…”

“You are right. We have not highlighted sections where this is brand-new and nothing has ever been done before. The two things that are different from the past, as I say, are access to finance and R&D.”

“Well, half of it is new and half of it is old.”

“C’est demain. That was me doing “Macbeth” in Canadian French.”

“That is to be determined, to be honest. As I say, it is very embryonic; I would say that it is only in the first trimester.”

“Sorry, I didn’t hear what you said.”

“Of course, but who are the creators in the film and TV industry? They are actors, designers, writers, hair and make-up, cinematographers—they are an enormously wide group of people. Some of them are freelancers. Those are some of the things that we want to take forward with the freelance champion. We will be looking at…”

“There has been an issue about whether they are getting paid swiftly enough, but we are already looking at that. That is just an administrative element, rather than a policy.”

“Sorry, I do not know enough about the copyright hub. Alastair might know more; I think he was in the Department.”

“If only!”

“I think we have to rely on you, Alastair.”

“Well, it might be, but writers’ rooms are using AI to help them to do things that would otherwise be very laborious and take a long time. This is the point that I think the BFI is making, which is that lots of people are using AI and the people who are using it within their work are flourishing.”

“Thank you. Can I go now?”

“That has already existed.”

“We have been giving £1 million for the last few years, and we have not made a firm commitment yet about what we will end up doing.”

“This is God’s own country and I am a mere servant.”

“Bearing in mind what you said last week, Dame Caroline, I think it is about time that we celebrated the creative industries. This is not just a brief encounter; for many people it is a matter of life and death, and in the end there is hunger for change. I hope that by the matter of persuasion, you will accept that we a…”

“The first thing we needed to do was get an agreement out of the European Union-UK summit, which we did, which was that we were to take forward further work on this. One of the issues for us is that we are the people who want this to happen. I think it is in the interests of every other country in Europe to enable prope…”