Speeches by Bryant.

“One of the main things—I think that the independent film tax credit will help with this—is that we need to make sure that we are making British content as well. Secondly, we need to make sure that British content can be exported well around the world so that it makes money. Thirdly, we need to have strong public servic…”

“Well, we could. We have been thinking about ways in which we could do that. It is not as simple as it might seem. I think I read in one of the submissions that you have had that there was a suggestion that the tax credits could be only applied to companies that signed up. We are looking through the legal niceties of al…”

“There is a whole series of things that are not specific to DCMS but apply across every sector. I have already referred to the issues that we have with freelancers and the fact that it is a very freelance-heavy industry. Some of the problems that we have had in the last 12 to 18 months have related to the strike in the …”

“I will give it four stars out of five, and I think it has transformed the—as I said, years ago everybody just left it all to the BBC and thought that everybody else would float along and get on, and when innovations came along, they would somehow by osmosis manage to absorb it into their systems. Then everybody realise…”

“I am not sure that it is for Government to address. I think it is primarily for the industry to address, and I am having those conversations with the distributors and the industry.”

“It is also partly about the BBC, because it has its own archive and is required to have one. We need to bind them into those conversations as well. This technology has changed so dramatically in such a short time. I remember when I worked at the BBC in Brussels we were showing BBC TV, I think it was “Walking with Dinos…”

“We have been very keen from day one of the new Government to have DCMS work very closely with the Department for Education. When we had a creative industries event in a growth summit in Gateshead a couple of weeks ago, it was good that we had a DFE Minister there, Catherine McKinnell. We have weekly conversations with …”

“I know that we are doing film and high-end television now, but we are also looking at this in relation to music. Are the exams that people sit at school are really the right kind of exams for actually being able to perform and make a living out of playing the guitar, for instance? All those elements of whether we are t…”

“That is a matter for the DFE, I am afraid.”

“Yes, that is one of the things that the DFE is looking at.”

“It seems obvious to me that you have to have a portable and flexible system to be able to deliver a proper apprenticeship scheme in this sector.”

“The one specific that we have already agreed on is shorter projects. They will not have to be for a year. That will start in August of this year. We are still working on elements around portability, which is one of the key things for the creative industries. All the creative industries have been asking for it. It is ve…”

“Right. Yes, we are open to looking at it. We are working through how the specifics would work. I do not want to create an overly burdensome system and create an expectation that cannot be met.”

“We are looking at copyright.”

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

“I cannot find a figure for the square footage of film studio space in Hollywood, but we think that we are pretty much on a par, if not ahead of Hollywood.”

“We do not have a fixed figure.”

“Gainsborough did not survive. Gainsborough was one from the same year as Ealing, but it did not survive.”

“There is a whole series of things that are not specific to DCMS but apply across every sector. I have already referred to the issues that we have with freelancers and the fact that it is a very freelance-heavy industry. Some of the problems that we have had in the last 12 to 18 months have related to the strike in the …”

“Well, we could. We have been thinking about ways in which we could do that. It is not as simple as it might seem. I think I read in one of the submissions that you have had that there was a suggestion that the tax credits could be only applied to companies that signed up. We are looking through the legal niceties of al…”