Speeches by Bryant.

“I would say two things. First, I am doing my bit as part of trying to make sure that we get a good outcome in relation to EU touring. I am not sure quite when that will come and what part of the process it will be, but I was really pleased that the EU Cultures Ministers invited me to their informal meeting in Warsaw, a…”

“I do not think the big issue is money. I think the big issue is bureaucracy and legal constraints. No, is the direct answer to your question, but we will think about it. There is some money that is provided through the Arts Council to artists who are touring, but I think the specific set of issues are more to do with f…”

“It is one of two Departments that I work in.”

“My general principle about things that I read in newspapers is that some of them might be true and some of them might not be true, and my working assumption is that this is in the latter category. But, if I am honest, I have not investigated it very much, and it certainly is not for me to decide. This is one of those m…”

“With a Minister for the Arts in it.”

“We are a very small Department. I think when you do the total budget and you do a pie chart, we normally come in the “other” category. There is not much fat in DCMS. I think it is a great Department, and people work extremely hard to be able to deliver on very tiny budgets extraordinary differences to people’s lives. O…”

“Number one, if the data Bill remains as the data Bill entered the House of Lords, without any reference to copyright, British copyright law will not have changed at all and will be as robust as it ever was, and the protections for copyright holders will be as robust as they ever were. You have heard me many times, both…”

“That might be a debate for tomorrow afternoon, I am afraid.”

“Sorry, can I just go back on one other point? Sorry, Dame Caroline, there is one other point I should perhaps make, which is that—again I have said this in the Chamber, but I will say this again here—I do not think for an instant that the creative industries are opposed to technological innovation or innovation of any …”

“Yes, although how they make people feel is part of the firepower, if you like. But yes, of course. The number of £124 billion of GVA is repeated by everybody, and quite rightly so, and there will probably be new numbers as well soon, which will probably be higher because this is a sector that is growing faster than any…”

“Those are obviously decisions for mayors rather than for us. I know both of them obviously and I think both of them had done an extraordinary job, although some of the media criticised them quite aggressively. The night-time economy is an important part of what people come to the UK for. One of the great delights as a …”

“There could. In a sense, that is what the agent of change principle is seeking to do. As I said earlier, that is why we are considering the question of whether or not we should put that into statute. Incidentally, I am a great fan of Amy Lamé. I remember her when she used to run Duckie at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern.”

“I was one of the people who signed up to getting the Royal Vauxhall Tavern listed because I thought that it was an important part of our cultural heritage.”

“I cannot give you a precise date, but I think it is somewhere between soon and imminently.”

“After all these years. Dame Caroline, as Led Zeppelin sang, when the levee breaks, mama, you’ve got to move.”

“They are all part of the equation, and I am having a bit more of the conversation here now with them.”

“Sorry, say that again. I am slightly deaf and this a really difficult room in which to hear, so if you could bellow, that would be very helpful, Dame Caroline.”

“That is what not what Tom Cruise told me last night.”

“Well, in the words of Harry Styles, we are pleasing, never perfect, so I would prefer us to have achieved a lot more by now. However, I said in my letter to you—in I think November last year—that we hoped to make substantial progress by the first quarter of 2025 and we have made substantial progress. That is good. But …”

“We have said that we want it to be a voluntary levy because it is quicker to achieve. As you know, anything that requires statute takes forever and a day. I do not know when the next King’s Speech is going to be, so I do not know when we would be able to legislate. I do not think we would be able to do it by secondary …”