Speeches by Hinds.

“Even for highly regulated occupations and professions, there is still the question of how to transpose that into a set of standards for, say, an apprenticeship. The question then is: who is the person, or who are the people, best placed to work that out? I am not saying that it is not necessarily Ministers, but I have …”

“Unsurprisingly, my hon. Friend makes a very good point. More generally, in legislation one obviously tries to make language as tight as possible, but subtleties in language and meaning still matter in how it gets interpreted. The way the clause is drafted—that the “Secretary of State may prepare a standard if satisfied…”

“Clauses 7 and 8 are grouped, and I am sure there is a reason for that, but it strikes me that they are quite different, and I want to say a word about both. Clause 7 is about examination by independent third parties, which I think gives an opportunity to also talk about the overall principle of having independent evalu…”

“The hon. Member is right: of course those things are different, but with the dawning realisation I had back then, I started to wonder who else might take a zero-hours contract? Yes, it is true that disproportionately they are young people, but for quite a lot of people a zero-hours contract is for a second job. I would…”

“I rise to speak to the measures on zero-hours contracts, and Opposition new clause 83 and amendment 283. It is absolutely right that we should pause to consider the effects of these changes on employment tribunals, but it is also right that we should pause to consider their effect just on employment. Of course, there a…”

“I think that is right. The other thing I was struck by in some of the sessions was the great unity of views. Whether it was trade unions, charities, parent groups, doctors or parents, there was a great commonality of view about what needed to be done. I understand what happens sometimes with private Members’ Bills and …”

“Our children’s use of phones and social media give us many things to worry about, but broadly speaking they are grouped into three categories. The first is about content, going from pornography and violence and the insidious effects of curated lives, influencers and celebs on our children and their sense of self-worth,…”

“Effective.”

“If I may ask one more— Chair: It will have to be really quick.”

“I welcome what the Security Minister said about the inclusion of Iran in the enhanced tier of FIRS. Can he confirm—I hope that the ISC will look at this—that as that system operationalises, it will also cover more complex situations in which it is not as straightforward as somebody taking instruction from an organ of t…”

“On a related but different question about the business model, in a parallel industry—the music industry—there was an enormous revolution moving away from physical format music and everyone thought the industry had been changed forever. Then it turned out it was only temporary. Downloads had replaced physical format, bu…”

“It may be that Tom wants to come back on the licence fee, but I want to ask about commercial income. Your organisation has a very enviable stock of IP, from the mother brand to individual pieces of creative output. There has been a strain on licence fee income, but I think that the bigger drop last year was in commerci…”

“A lot of businesses struggle with that balance—reinvesting in the business versus dividends for shareholders.”

“Within the commercial income streams, where do you see the most promising lines of growth?”

“That is an unexpected turn to this conversation, because this topic has come up in this Committee before, and it is usually members of the Committee who say—and it is true that the licence fee situation is a bit of an outlier and there are particular questions about the number of women who are criminalised and so on be…”

“It will be lightning quick. Of all the things that have changed in viewing and listening habits over the years, one of them is kids having their own tellies and then their own screens. One of things we have lost is watching things together. I just wonder if you think that is a trend that could ever be reversed and if i…”

“Through technology.”

“Dr Shah, you said the board is very exercised about this, and I am not surprised. From the point of view of the BBC’s reputation, this is awful, and today more than ever for a similar case if it had happened in the past. You talked about the distinction between opinionated news and fact-based news. Later in this sessio…”

“I am asking either of you.”

“When you say there are unanswered questions, there are questions from the BBC—”