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19 May 2026Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140)

It is an interesting question—whether three to five destinations at scale really is a stable equilibrium, and why there would not be just one.

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19 May 2026Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140)

Marina, you said earlier that most BBC content is still watched on linear, but I think that is less true the younger you go down the age groups—in fact, over time, the proportion is shifting away. I want to come back to the conversation you just started on the iPlayer. There is some conversation at the moment, includin

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19 May 2026Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140)

My final question is to you both. In this crazy world we live in, with infinite choice and daily brain overload, do you think that we might find people turning back to a renewed demand for channels, where somebody else has done the work for me?

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19 May 2026Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140)

Let me come on to that. If you had the super-PSB streamer, and you then had Netflix, Apple and Prime, all of which show their own stuff and some PSB stuff, and in some cases, do some cross-selling of other commercial services, and over it all you also had YouTube—or ubiquitous-tube—is that a stable equilibrium?

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19 May 2026Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140)

Marina, you said earlier that most BBC content is still watched on linear, but I think that is less true the younger you go down the age groups—in fact, over time, the proportion is shifting away. I want to come back to the conversation you just started on the iPlayer. There is some conversation at the moment, includin

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19 May 2026Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140)

We grew up with variety until very recently, and the situation you have just described is not variety; it is bingeing. Maybe I am just being overly nostalgic. Is there a prospect that we might decide that what we had before was pretty good?

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19 May 2026Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140)

We grew up with variety until very recently, and the situation you have just described is not variety; it is bingeing. Maybe I am just being overly nostalgic. Is there a prospect that we might decide that what we had before was pretty good?

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19 May 2026Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140)

My final question is to you both. In this crazy world we live in, with infinite choice and daily brain overload, do you think that we might find people turning back to a renewed demand for channels, where somebody else has done the work for me?

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19 May 2026Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140)

It is an interesting question—whether three to five destinations at scale really is a stable equilibrium, and why there would not be just one.

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19 May 2026Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140)

Let me come on to that. If you had the super-PSB streamer, and you then had Netflix, Apple and Prime, all of which show their own stuff and some PSB stuff, and in some cases, do some cross-selling of other commercial services, and over it all you also had YouTube—or ubiquitous-tube—is that a stable equilibrium?

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28 Apr 2026Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1339)

You still need to be price competitive. The visits are great, but you probably need to attract people. Finally, coming back to the point about ministerial attendance, not so much at motor racing or football, as it is always easy to get attendance for those things, but particularly at business and trade events, you said

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28 Apr 2026Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1339)

In terms of market share, it is difficult to measure these things precisely for events, but it is probably fair to say that, #despiteBrexit, we still do well compared to other European nations on major events. In the middle east and in south-east and eastern Asia, there is a lot of growth, and we may well be losing glo

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28 Apr 2026Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1339)

Give me an example of what that means in practice. What could be different if you had the ideal strategy and the golden thread?

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28 Apr 2026Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1339)

We have talked a few times about how everything is pretty good—very good perhaps—but we just lack a strategy and do not have a golden thread. If you had the ideal strategy that had a golden thread, what would be different?

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28 Apr 2026Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1339)

Just nail it down. Be a bit more specific. What would this strategy give us IRL?

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28 Apr 2026Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1339)

Can I come back to competitiveness in general, including price competitiveness, which Liz talked about and, Michael, you also mentioned? I think you effectively said, yes, we cost more but people still keep buying from us anyway. I think you would probably agree that there is only so far you can stretch that argument.

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28 Apr 2026Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1339)

You would like to have, in the jargon, a single front door, a named contact in central Government whom I as a major event organiser could come to and who could not necessarily solve all my problems immediately but, whether it is a road closure, a security question, visa blockages or whatsoever it might be, I have a sin

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28 Apr 2026Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1339)

Minister, what role do you think major events play in promoting and supporting British soft power and development of international relationships? Assuming it is a positive one, how could we make more of it?

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23 Apr 2026Contaminated Blood: Compensation

I thank the Paymaster General for his personal work in this area. The increase in the unethical research award is a material improvement, and I am particularly thinking of the former pupils at Treloar’s. However, there is still some uncertainty in the community about the evidence that will be required to qualify for th

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23 Apr 2026Contaminated Blood: Compensation

12. What recent steps he has taken to ensure that people infected and affected by contaminated blood are compensated.

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MethodEach row is one contribution (intervention or speech). Word count from the official text.