Speeches by Bryant.

“We at DSIT are arguing for our best-resourced set of outcomes from the spending review. I am conscious that sometimes the UK has an advantage even though it may not have a financial advantage in terms of having as much money to put on the table. As you will again know, sometimes what we are better at doing is managing …”

“It is a competitive co-operation. Inevitably, everybody in the space sector, whether they are commercial operators or not, wants to gain advantage over their rivals for economic reasons. At the same time, they need to learn from each other. I know it says in my notes that Norway keeps its cards very close to its chest.…”

“We have had some debris come down on Turks and Caicos, one of our overseas territories. We have had to do that negotiation with them, and that is not necessarily simple.”

“Sorry to interrupt, but it speaks to our two key themes of national security and economic growth. For economic growth it is an area where we have a degree of expertise and commitment that others do not necessarily have, and we want to exploit that. Secondly, it is a key aspect of future security, because if you have th…”

“It is going to have to be a mixed economy, so it is not a wholesale switch from one to the other.”

“Sorry, I do not quite understand the thrust of that.”

“I have one tiny point. We need to do more co-ordination with the devolved Administrations in looking at that.”

“I will defer to Chris in a moment but, to use the analogy that he uses regularly, about the airport, the aeroplane and the passengers, of course Government will need to be a passenger. There will be a series of different things that we need to roll out, and that is part of what we are looking at in terms of our industr…”

“I cannot judge whether we have greater appetite for risk than Norway, but it is a very well-made point, which again was made by one of your previous witnesses. They referred to what some people would call a failure as an anomaly. The key issue is whether all the protocols worked, whether there was a threat or danger to…”

“Just generally on finance, there is not a lot of it around. We may have lots of ambitions, but we may not be able to meet all of them. We will have to work within the resources that are available to us.”

“It is very useful.”

“I know you have previously asked questions about the move to Shetland. It is key not to have just the idea of getting a launch happening this year—or maybe two this year, or one this year and one early next year, or whatever. You need to get to a commercialised situation where you have enough payloads to be able to mak…”

“It is great to be here. I am a Macleod as well really. My grandmother was a Macleod by birth, and her father was the minister in Avoch. In fact, my grandfather played for Glasgow Rangers. That has probably put off half the Committee, if not all of the Committee—I did not do that research beforehand. I might just set th…”

“Yes, very much so, but I would put it slightly differently. The two key aims are national security and economic growth. This is a very significant part of where Scotland can play a vital role in the wider space sector across the whole of the United Kingdom. We talk about launch, and you think, “Is that just about a roc…”

“It is not a telecoms question then.”

“Ms McVey, I am sure that if you were not in the Chair, you would be participating in this debate, because I know that you have an interest in this area not only as a Member of Parliament, but personally. I am not sure whether there is a recording of your performance in “The Vagina Monologues” years ago, but there are m…”

“I am very reluctant to give way, if only because I have quite a lot of things to get through. I am really sorry. We will have another debate on this issue very soon, I am sure. Sixthly, several Members referred to people wanting a “legal peace of mind”. I am not reiterating the line about whether or not there is legal …”

“I only have 45 seconds left, so I am afraid that I cannot; I am sorry. If we were able to deliver that over the next 12 to 18 months in the UK, then we genuinely would be leading the world and we would be answering the problems of transparency and provenance, and making sure that people were genuinely remunerated. That…”

“Finally, somebody speaks up for the robots. We have been waiting for centuries. The robots have been clamouring outside, waiting for the moment when somebody would speak up for them, and I am sure that they will be delighted about the way that my hon. Friend the Member for Rugby (John Slinger) has done so today. My hon…”

“I am very keen to integrate the creative industries far better into our visitor economy. My hon. Friend will know in her own patch that it is not just the Aldeburgh festival, which has been going since 1948; she has Maggi Hambling living down the road in Saxmundham, and there is a lively artistic community. We need to …”