Speeches by Bryant.

“Quite aggressive questioning.”

“That is like me telling you what is going to be in my plan, and I am not publishing it here today. There is stuff I am working on still, so on the Creative Remuneration Working Group, which was set up under the previous Government, I think we are making significant progress. I would like the record labels to move close…”

“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.”

“Yes. It is not easy setting up a new charity. Lots of us have done it as MPs and end up doing things in our own constituencies. I have myself. Obviously you want to make sure that the fiduciary responsibilities of trustees are adhered to. What is good is that quite a few people who have already signed up as trustees ar…”

“I am pretty focused on it, if I am honest. We have had quite robust conversations in some of the meetings I have been in about trying to make sure that we deliver on all of this. Some of this is not entirely within our gift, so the issues around creative education and music in schools is of course a DfE responsibility,…”

“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.”

“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 not my Department.”

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

“It might be disbanded, you never know.”

“Did you say “hopefully”?”

“Quite aggressive questioning.”

“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…”

“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…”