Speeches by Bryant.

“Sure. The tax incentives—the tax credits, tax reliefs, which have been in place in various different forms over the years, not just in film and high-end television, but audiovisual as it is now termed, as well as in other sectors—are a really important part of our investment in the creative industries. Let’s go back on…”

“The sector has said that to me as well.”

“I note that you think that, Dame Caroline.”

“There is another serious point. The fact that UK film and television qualifies as European content is a very important aspect of our future in this sector, and we certainly do not want to lose that. Anything that we can do to enhance and protect that is obviously in our interests.”

“There is no table to put it on.”

“I am not putting it on the table, and I have not taken it off the table.”

“I am going to call the fifth amendment at this point—not that we have a written constitution or an amendment to it. We are thinking about it. There are arguments in favour, there are arguments against, and there is a cost. We need to assess where we want to go on that.”

“I am conscious that we have lost 124 cinemas in the last couple of years. I think we have something like 825 cinemas at the moment. While a lot of us watch movies and films on our mobile phones or on a tablet, or on a television at home, or wherever it may be, there is nothing that beats that experience of sitting in a…”

“I thought it was interesting in the debate yesterday that the one thing that has come back to me most frequently from the creative industries, apart from discussions about artificial intelligence—which you might come on to later perhaps—has been in relation to access to finance, but it wasn’t much debated yesterday aft…”

“That is a vital one, and I am really delighted that we are having an industrial strategy. That is an important thing for a Government to have, because it determines some of the areas where we see potential for economic growth. Secondly, I am delighted that the creative industries are part of that—one of the eight secto…”

“I have to declare it, because it is a requirement of the House that I declare anything that is a potential interest or might be perceived to be an interest by a reasonable member of the public. This is simply to say, I am not entering into making films myself, but two of my books have been optioned: one by Mother Pictu…”

“Oh, sorry.”

“More than you expected. Can I just do my declaration of interest because I have to do that for the House?”

“What do you look like in pink? I guess that is the question.”

“We are conscious of it, and we are thinking about it.”

“As Alastair referred to, it is very impressive that Pinewood has set aside a specific part of Pinewood for independent film.”

“They do a multiplicity of different things on some of these sound stages—dubbing, for instance. Pinewood has the massive water tank that is in Bond movies and so on.”

“Thank you very much!”

“Sorry, I couldn’t think of anything else to say.”

“Thank you very much!”