Speeches by Kane.

“I have just heard a reason for the change and then a reason against it, so I am confused. Do you need to change it? It is either that you wanted it as a deterrent, you got a deterrent and it is working 96% of the time, which is really good—I think you said that 4% of cases are not working—or it is not working, you need…”

“To finish my metaphor—not about the SNP—we must hold steady, make the adjustments needed and focus on getting safely to better conditions. That is the task in front of us, and that is why I will support the Prime Minister to continue doing the job that he was elected to do, keep a steady hand on the tiller and guide th…”

“A referral to the Privileges Committee, particularly involving a Prime Minister, should be rare. The bar should be high, because we have so many other processes available to us in this place, and with this issue, many of those processes are already in action. The Foreign Affairs Committee, excellently chaired by my rig…”

“Thank you, Ms Lewell, for calling me back. Please give me one second to find out where I was—is it still Tuesday? As I was saying, if we want to avoid such situations in the future, we need to involve mountain rescue and the wider search and rescue community much earlier in the policymaking process. They must be part o…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Lewell. In Stirling and Strathallan we are served by three outstanding teams: Lomond Mountain Rescue Team, based in Drymen; Killin mountain rescue, operating from Killin and Callender; and Ochils mountain rescue, operating from a neighbouring constituency, but also …”

“As a former council leader, I always say that the Scottish Government have to keep on top of what that figure is and invest in it, because volumes can change, and the amount of money is never enough to do all the work required. They need a robust approach to ensuring that the funding model is adapting and changing, par…”

“There are a lot of good things there. Your enthusiasm for all of this is coming through. Let us try to unpack some of that. I think my colleague Sarah is going to talk in a minute about some of the physical problems, so let me stick with cyber—let’s talk about that. I also want to talk more about cost sharing and what …”

“It is the sharing I am interested in. They are the best example, but you are supporting 14 other museums, and you have dozens and dozens of other museums around the country that would benefit from that knowledge. It is about getting economies of scale and sharing best practice. What are you doing to get all that inform…”

“Paragraph 3.27 of the Report says that some museums and galleries “consider that DCMS could do more to help through its convening role to facilitate and support greater collaboration in tackling challenges, or by providing seed funding” to museums and galleries to “build skills and capacity”. On this Committee, we hear…”

“Cyber is about the sort of bad stuff, and we will have to help them as much as we can, but what about some of the good stuff around digitising collections? I guess that is laborious and time-consuming and can be expensive, but ultimately that is going to make the collections more accessible. What are you doing to suppo…”

“I am conscious that I only have a little while before the Chair takes me off the gallery floor and puts me back into storage, so can we talk about sharing financial costs? Paragraph 3.28 says that, in helping the sharing of financial matters through forums, cost saving did not seem to come up as much as it could, and. …”

“I refer to paragraph 3.26 on page 42 of the Report, on your role as a convenor and enabler. Paragraph 3.26 talks about “common resilience issues and opportunities,” such as cyber-threats and scope for introducing further shared services. It says in 3.27 that, “The majority of M&Gs told us that DCMS supports efforts to …”

“I am going to try to bring this all together very quickly; I know I am pushing my luck. I love what I am hearing, but it feels like, although you are convening everybody there, you are not showing them the carrots and the sticks to make them do better. You are enjoying the sharing of the knowledge, but you do have carr…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms McVey. I approach this debate from a position of experience, because I have seen volunteering and community centres from many levels: user, volunteer, trustee, community councillor, local councillor and leader of Stirling council. I am not talking about community sp…”

“Good morning; I am Chris Kane and I am also guesting from the Public Accounts Committee today. What impact are we seeing across industry from the current war in Iran?”

“I am very conscious of time, and I want to crack on and ask a couple of other questions, if that is okay. I suspect America is now firing more missiles than it was planning on buying to replace them. How is the industry thinking about the difference between its approach to steadily building a stockpile of munitions in …”

“So it was a very good conversation then!”

“I am conscious that I have had a very good conversation with you, Bob. I have enjoyed it, but I wonder if Steve and Dominic want to add anything to what we have been talking about.”

“Is the cost to replace a weapon that you have fired the same as the cost to plan to do it?”

“Last week, I was lucky enough to meet some of the cyber specialists who have joined the military; the military brought them in in a slightly different way. I am conscious of this because my children are teenagers at the moment. They are looking at universities and thinking about engineering, but they are also thinking …”