Speeches by Bryant.

“Sorry, Mr Hinds, but what matters is that it needs to be data that is usable by others. That is the point. For instance, if you are buying your ticket from Trainline and you have a condition, at the moment you cannot know. You would have to use some other means of finding out what railway stations—”

“I thought that that was one for Mr Hinds.”

“He is against it being Government-run, and you are—”

“This is precisely the question I asked them yesterday.”

“It is enabling a marketplace, in essence, and sometimes local government provides the space where the market can take place. Sometimes it owns the market and sometimes it allows the market to be run on an entirely commercial basis. The stock exchange, of course, is a business. We have not decided, but part of what is g…”

“That has already existed.”

“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.”

“Well, it might not be a Government activity. For instance, if I go back to my data Minister side, there are companies working in this sphere that would like to create a data exchange like the stock exchange, because there are lots of organisations that simply do not know where to go to find data, to buy data that they …”

“I will address the first half of that, and then the second half. Yes, I fully accept that there are real challenges for the whole hospitality sector in the UK and, by definition, therefore the visitor economy. I am still hopeful that we will have a larger number of people this year than last year coming to the UK from …”

“Thank you. Can I go now?”

“In a sense, I have answered that. People have raised these concerns with me; I had a meeting yesterday morning with people from Hilton, and they are concerned. They are equally concerned, incidentally, about another pebble in the pond at the moment, which is that the pound is now so expensive compared to the dollar tha…”

“We are doing it. You recommended it. Where I possibly can, Dame Caroline, I like to agree with you.”

“To grow the creative industries, because we know that they are an essential part of our economic future in this country. They have grown faster than most other sectors in the UK economy over the last few years, and we want to make sure that they do so in future. Where there are barriers that are set up by Government th…”

“There is a lot in the plan. There were two key things that I was conscious of before we got to the general election, which had never really landed with regard to the creative industries. One thing was about access to finance. This was brought home to me when I went on a visit to Leeds last year. Women who run career te…”

“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…”

“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 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.”