Speeches by Hinds.

“Frank, can I ask you about your Sheffield speech—particularly what you were saying about early years development and the exposure of very young children to flashing imagery and very fast-moving content? Do you think there should be guidance from the health service or the Department for Education that says, “Do not expo…”

“That was not what I was asking about though. On parental controls, you rightly talked about the complexity, and I think it is even more complex than you said, because it is one thing to be controlling YouTube, but most parents are also trying to control Apple, Microsoft, some AI programme, and at least one, or possibly…”

“There are plenty of other ways of reaching children as well, of course. “Newsround” is shown, as far as I can tell, in many or most primary schools in the country, for example. There is still print advertising. There is billboard advertising. There are all sorts of ways of getting to kids.”

“YouTube take ads.”

“Well, they are watching something.”

“Sorry—that is pushing again. I am not arguing against pushing. Pushing absolutely has a role, but so does pulling, and in most consumer markets you have both. Shelf placement is important in a supermarket, but so is the brand advertising that makes you want to seek out that particular brand of soap powder. I guess my q…”

“This is a thorough piece of work from Professor Francis. There are things in it to welcome, including the retention of key stage 2 assessments and the triple science entitlement, although the Government will have to say where the resourcing will come from to make that a reality. In truth, there are other things that we…”

“It is currently changing. All the main institutions are changing. Has that solved or will it solve any of your problems?”

“There will be more flexibility in how the apprentice levy will be used. It is changing to the growth and skills levy, although that question about covering salaries is a different one. How long would a typical apprenticeship in a craft skill be?”

“On a different tack, there has been a shift away from people wanting to own stuff to having experiences, particularly since covid. It is a big trend of the leisure area. Heritage skills, particularly some of these rarer skills, in theory offer quite a big opportunity. I wonder how or if you see the opportunity of uppin…”

“Is it a question for the Church of England or is it a question for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport?”

“That is of course already possible, to be clear. You can do an apprenticeship across more than one employer.”

“Do you have a formal road into Skills England—or did you go to IfATE before—for setting the occupational standards in these craft skills? Matthew?”

“Thank you very much. Can I follow up first on a question that Rupa asked about the historic churches? I have three in my constituency, two small ones and one grand one, but they are all subject to a restrictive rule that they can be used only six times a year for religious services. At the same time, all manner of diff…”

“There will be more flexibility in how the apprentice levy will be used. It is changing to the growth and skills levy, although that question about covering salaries is a different one. How long would a typical apprenticeship in a craft skill be?”

“I want to talk about skills. It has come up a few times, including from Eilish earlier, and you mentioned both modern transferable skills like governance and digital skills but, crucially, I want to talk about traditional craft skills and heritage skills. On the red list of endangered crafts, 72 skills are listed as be…”

“Is it a question for the Church of England or is it a question for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport?”

“Thank you very much. Can I follow up first on a question that Rupa asked about the historic churches? I have three in my constituency, two small ones and one grand one, but they are all subject to a restrictive rule that they can be used only six times a year for religious services. At the same time, all manner of diff…”

“I want to pick up on what Geoff said earlier about the project funding being fine but there being limited preventative and maintenance funding. To what extent are you able, as English Heritage, to focus the money that you control on the former, on the preventative maintenance? To what extent do you do that?”

“On a different tack, there has been a shift away from people wanting to own stuff to having experiences, particularly since covid. It is a big trend of the leisure area. Heritage skills, particularly some of these rarer skills, in theory offer quite a big opportunity. I wonder how or if you see the opportunity of uppin…”