Speeches by Hinds.

“On that 12-month process—”

“Good. You did, though.”

“Who is deciding whether it is substantive?”

“Okay, but the question is the same: when do the 12 months end?”

“I am going to come back to you, Dr Shah. On the question of high-profile people exiting the organisation, another thing the independent report talks about is succession planning. All organisations have to have succession planning. Ultimately it is the responsibility of the chair and the non-execs to make sure that the …”

“How does that manifest for presenters—for the people on screen?”

“I need to draw something slightly more out of you, if I may, and then I am done. When you say, “we are doing that work”, how does that manifest? What is the output?”

“And what—”

“Is there a succession plan for your top level of so-called talent? For each individual, is there an alternative?”

“I do not want to cut you off, but let me cut you off. You say there is confidence in how a complaint will be handled. In the Wallace case, one of the issues that came up in the investigation was that complaints made against him were not always put to him; he may not even have known about some of them at the time. Is pa…”

“22. If she will meet with representatives of the farming industry to discuss the potential impact of changes to agricultural property relief and business property relief on that sector.”

“Given the Prime Minister’s clear commitment to growth that benefits every community in every corner of the UK, his Ministers will no doubt be disturbed at polling showing that four fifths of farmers have postponed or delayed investment since the Budget. Is it not time for a rethink of this policy—if not on grounds of f…”

“There were five major expansions of early years education and childcare entitlement under the last Government; what the Minister has announced today would have been our sixth. But since we formed this policy, the new Government have made a massive increase in the tax on jobs. When will Ministers next publish their asse…”

“I am sad to say that the number of payroll employees in this country has fallen by 149,000 in the past year. We now have unemployment inching up towards 5%, with youth unemployment much higher than that. Why do I mention that in the context of a debate about hospitality? It is because a disproportionate number of jobs—…”

“Good morning. Can I start by asking about schools? We understand that school break times and playtimes have become shorter over time. There is a general assumption that that is due to more things being packed into the curriculum. Can you tell us what you know about home time over time?”

“As always.”

“You say “addictive by design”. If you are a game designer, or are indeed inventing a new sport, you want it to be good. You want people to want to come back to it, so to some extent all good activities are compelling. Are there particular features of certain video games that you think are a problem? People talk about l…”

“We started this session with Natasha giving us Frank Dobson’s definition of play, and later we heard about Lloyd George’s. I think both those definitions included the word “natural”. Do critics ever accuse you of over-engineering the problem, in that play does come naturally to children and there have been many generat…”

“It is still play. There is a difference, that I think most of us would discern, between video games that you do on your own or with somebody else in the same physical space. Then there are these networked video games, which, of course, when almost all of us were young just did not exist. It is a whole new thing to pare…”

“Call it the age of consent, but it is a terrible term.”