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Speeches by Hinds.

Every Hansard contribution by Damian Hinds this parliament, most recent first. Back to the MP page for the headline figures and analysed positions.

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30 Jun 2026Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140)

I think 1695 was when we last had licensing of the press to define a “news source”, so it is a very difficult question. Magnus or Martin, can either of you take up the challenge of defining what should make the cut? To keep life a little simpler, let’s just talk about news for the moment, rather than content in general

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30 Jun 2026Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140)

For what it is worth, I am very much in favour of this provision in the Green Paper. I think that it is a fundamental change that we need to make in the algorithmic serving up of content. But when you come up to reality, the difficulty is knowing exactly how you do it. Whether you or not agree with their definition, ha

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30 Jun 2026Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140)

I think that is probably a given; we would expect the BBC, Channel 4 and ITN to be included. My question is: what do you expect to be included with them?

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30 Jun 2026Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140)

Sorry, my facial expression was not saying that I thought that was impossible. Most people are online, including old people.

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30 Jun 2026Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140)

I think that is probably a given; we would expect the BBC, Channel 4 and ITN to be included. My question is: what do you expect to be included with them?

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30 Jun 2026Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140)

You would expect that to be included?

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30 Jun 2026Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140)

During this inquiry I have asked a lot of people whether it is a stable equilibrium to have your own video-on-demand platforms, other video-on-demand platforms that carry some of your content but not all of it, and one massive platform called YouTube that carries absolutely everything from everyone. As you are strategy

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30 Jun 2026Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140)

For what it is worth, I am very much in favour of this provision in the Green Paper. I think that it is a fundamental change that we need to make in the algorithmic serving up of content. But when you come up to reality, the difficulty is knowing exactly how you do it. Whether you or not agree with their definition, ha

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30 Jun 2026Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140)

During this inquiry I have asked a lot of people whether it is a stable equilibrium to have your own video-on-demand platforms, other video-on-demand platforms that carry some of your content but not all of it, and one massive platform called YouTube that carries absolutely everything from everyone. As you are strategy

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30 Jun 2026Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140)

Let us just take it as read that it is hard. The Green Paper has only just come out, so it is not unreasonable to say, “We do not know yet.” In case there is a different answer to that, Martin or Magnus, is there anything you could do if you had that duty on media literacy?

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30 Jun 2026Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140)

I do not want to try our Chair’s patience too much, but another thing in the Green Paper is the possibility that PSB and PSM providers might have some enhanced duty to promote media literacy. What would that look like in practice?

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30 Jun 2026Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140)

Possibly the biggest implication in last week’s Green Paper relates to prominence. Stephen, who would you expect to get prominence in this regime?

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30 Jun 2026Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140)

I am asking you. The Green Paper sets out something that says public service media is a yes, and I think it also says “potentially” a range of trusted news sources. That word “potentially” obviously does quite a lot of work, and the word “trusted” does a lot of work in that sentence. What would you expect to be include

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30 Jun 2026Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140)

To summarise, you want it to be as soon as possible—

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30 Jun 2026Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140)

And 2034 is the earliest mooted date.

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30 Jun 2026Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140)

Sorry, my facial expression was not saying that I thought that was impossible. Most people are online, including old people.

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30 Jun 2026Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140)

Okay. Martin, do you agree with that?

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30 Jun 2026Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140)

Sooner or later?

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30 Jun 2026Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140)

I love the idea that there is a tranche of elderly people who have been waiting for voice control to use digital television—maybe it is true.

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30 Jun 2026Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140)

On the pros and cons, can you mention more of the cons?

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