Speeches by Bryant.

“Yes. We have to work out what the precise terms of reference will be. That is a discussion that is ongoing. Of course, we want to talk to all the different parts of the sector to work out precisely what that should be, so that it is both proportionate and effective and so it does not end up being drowned in so many tas…”

“Oh no, we have a plan for change.”

“Obviously, our sector plan is part of a wider industrial strategy, so we are mirroring the process in other industries as well. With another hat on, I have responsibility for space. Space is included in the advanced manufacturing sector, and there is a similar criticism there. You are absolutely right that we need to e…”

“I feel I ought to say something witty and amusing. You obviously toyed with that but rejected that idea. The point has been well made by, in particular, people from Leicester, because there is quite a conglomeration of comedy clubs and they have a comedy festival in Leicester as well. Yes, I am keen to have a roundtabl…”

“He’s very good, isn’t he?”

“This plan is funded and committed, and you know the specific sums, with the £380 million that was committed to. Some of that has come from us and some of it is coming from DSIT. I am grateful, incidentally, to my DSIT colleagues for wanting to embrace this. They will be able to say more later this year about R&D, about…”

“That has already existed.”

“One of the questions that I was specifically asked was whether it will be a Minister. No, it will not be a Minister. It will be somebody with more independence than that.”

“I am very painfully aware that it is one thing to make a film and another matter to get it in front of eyes and actually make a living out of it. That depends on distribution and a whole series of different things. Do we have enough cinemas? Do we have cinemas that know how to market? Do we have distributors that are a…”

“I cannot remember whether it was your debate or somebody else’s debate in Westminster Hall at which I said that I thought it is completely inappropriate for people to use pirated copies of other people’s books, including the Minister for Creative Industries, Arts and Tourism’s books. As I understand it, there are peopl…”

“Thank you. Can I go now?”

“If it is all right, Dame Caroline, I am going to be the data Minister and the creative industries Minister in one. I do not think anybody should be spooked by it. It is an entirely positive thing to consider, but it is very embryonic at the moment. If I can be just the data Minister for a moment, we have a stock exchan…”

“It would have to respect copyright completely. The idea is that this would be effectively an answer to the licensing question. How do you get to a place where people can license, in both senses of the word: “license” as in “allow”, and “license” as in “get remuneration for the use of their data”?”

“No. You would only be at a loss in the sense that there might be a potential route for remuneration for you through this—but only that.”

“I am going to be a bit cautious. For instance, it is perfectly possible that DACS, which represents visual artists, photographers and painters and so on, has a large amount of data. It might want to take part in this and effectively sell or license—permanently, temporarily, for fixed purposes or whatever—the content th…”

“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…”

“There is something that my view has changed on this year. At the beginning of the year, I think I thought that all AI in future would be general-purpose large language models and that there would be just five or six massive ones. I think the future will lie in much more closed, proprietorial large language models, whic…”

“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 …”