Speeches by Bryant.

“What film were you—hang on, we are not meant to do this, are we? Order, order. As I was saying, I am also very proud of the young actor Callum Scott Howells, who is doing phenomenally well.”

“No, I am not sacking them. You cannot call for civil servants to be sacked from the Chair, Madam Deputy Speaker, otherwise people will call for you to be sacked. As the Jamaican reggae artists Tenor Saw and Bob Marley have lyricised, “Life is one big road with lots of signs”. This debate has shone a light on not just n…”

“I am sure that you look forward to every response from a Government Minister, Madam Deputy Speaker. I note that my hon. Friend the Member for Bolton South and Walkden (Yasmin Qureshi) ended her speech by saying, “Let us light the way for the future of British neon”. I am grateful to her for securing this important deba…”

“That is the use of irony, which is also, of course, another fundamentally Greek concept. I want to say at the outset that the marbles are an extraordinarily significant and important part of Greek and—I would argue—western artistic and architectural understanding. Nobody should ever diminish their importance. Indeed, i…”

“If the hon. Gentleman had let me get on to that subject, we would have got there earlier, but he got to make his point—I think he divided the speech he would otherwise have made into two interventions. That is not something that I ever did when I was—”

“I will, but it will limit the amount of time I have to respond to the questions.”

“Kalimera, Mr Vickers. It is very good to have this debate and I commend the hon. Member for South Leicestershire (Alberto Costa) for bringing it to the House. Interestingly, it is the first one on this issue in this Parliament, and I am grateful to have the opportunity to speak about it. The hon. Gentleman is absolutel…”

“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…”

“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 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…”

“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 …”

“We went through pretty rigorous due diligence before putting our £20 million into Orbex. You have already heard from Orbex, so you know the specific niche into which they are seeking to insert themselves. I would say that they are doing so pretty effectively.”

“I am regretting the “space commander” line already, not least because there is a space commander, who will probably have a word with me later. If I could just make one prefatory remark, and then both of my colleagues will probably come in, we also know that we will have to have a sovereign capability. We cannot simply …”

“It was one of the things we talked about yesterday. Education was not there yesterday, but it is a key thing that we need to make sure of. It is about the pipeline into these skills. I read the evidence session that you had in February. Some of those points were made about Northumbria University, which I visited back i…”

“You make it sound like I want to take over the universe. It is part of the advanced manufacturing sector. A draft report is being produced at the moment. I am not sure quite when DBT will choose to publish all of the industrial strategy. That is in the process at the moment, and space is a key part of it, and should be…”