Speeches by Hinds.

“That is helpful to know. Do you think in this sector that the Employment Rights Bill will have some impact on the structure of employment itself? In other words, one thing you might expect is to have fewer individual events employing people or venues employing people and more contract staff, more staff agency. Is that …”

“Are you awaiting a response?”

“Bless, thank you. Going back to the employment question. Can you come back to basics and say, typically for events, what the employment contract is? Is it with a venue typically or with an event, like a one-off or an occasional entity, or is it typically with a temp agency, if you are the individual? I do not know who …”

“Who are these people? We need to meet them.”

“We will come on to infrastructure shortly. I do not want to cut you off but can I check, is somebody currently working on trying to make the world’s preeminent AI show come to Britain?”

“You say it needs to. Can you start with what it does and then we will move on to what it should do?”

“Let’s say you have a sector like life sciences or AI, where the sector itself has an interest and the Government of the country also has an interest in growing. What role do Government play in trying to stimulate the creation of large-scale business events in this country, rather than in Silicon Valley or in Geneva or …”

“In which case, Chair, I shall defer to that moment.”

“That I am not so sure about. Just to—”

“I think I can give you some reassurance, Jon.”

“Are you able to quantify in any way the cost effect?”

“How much more change are you expecting?”

“Yes. Nick, can I pick you up on what you were talking about there on employment? What do you think will be the effects of the Employment Rights Bill on this sector?”

“As you say, the earlier you get it, the better for inviting other people, for organising events and so on. Clearly we would like to grow this market. You need growth areas to be able to do that. If there is a growth area, probably someone has already nabbed it. Are there sectors that are under-served currently with lar…”

“Obviously there are further discussions, analysis and understanding to come, but what impact do you expect this legislation to have on actual volumes of secondary ticket sales?”

“Good luck, Jon. We have been there.”

“Okay, thank you. On secondary ticketing, you mentioned, en passant, the point about extraterritoriality. Isn’t that quite fundamental? If you ban something in Britain but you cannot ban it elsewhere—there are parallel debates about online gambling and so on—to what extent do you cut out secondary ticketing as opposed t…”

“That is helpful to know. Do you think in this sector that the Employment Rights Bill will have some impact on the structure of employment itself? In other words, one thing you might expect is to have fewer individual events employing people or venues employing people and more contract staff, more staff agency. Is that …”

“Are you awaiting a response?”

“Have you asked the question?”