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.
Showing 121–140 of 1,622 contributions · most-recent first
| Date | Debate & contribution | Words |
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| 23 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “Finally from me in this little segment, when people talk about a public service algorithm, do they just mean on iPlayer or on ITVX, or is the ambition a little bit deeper? Let us take Instagram, as it is the more extreme version because YouTube is fundamentally about videos, even though they are often quite short. If y…” | 104 |
| 23 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “That leads to another question. Why don’t we let the punter make their own choice in advance and say, ”Thank you very much, BBC or whoever you are, for deciding what would be good for me. I think this would be good for me”? And probably when you do that in a cool setting, rather like with social media, if you ask peopl…” | 158 |
| 23 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “To be fair, they also were not what I asked about. I don’t think people would put religious programming in the same bracket as lifestyle programming, or gameshows or quizzes.” | 30 |
| 23 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “I guess you have a sliding grey-scale thing where on the one hand you have perfectly personalised algorithms and on the other hand you have BBC One. In the middle, the more you have more channels, the closer you get to something that is personalised to this individual. You have seven different Absolute Radio channels. …” | 149 |
| 23 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “Helen, you anticipate my next question. Of course we all want to see local newspapers having prominence, and everyone could probably agree on a small number of publications. I have just looked this up: we abolished licensing of the press on 3 May 1695. In the modern world, who would decide, “This is a real newspaper, b…” | 60 |
| 23 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “During this inquiry, we keep hearing the new phrase, “public service algorithm.” It also appears in this morning’s hot-off-the-press publication, in which the Government say that they are “supportive of PSM providers developing algorithms in line with public service values, that strike the right balance between offerin…” | 235 |
| 23 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “I think this may call for a short reprise.” | 9 |
| 23 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “I am sorry to interrupt, but we are short on time. If you have a human creating it, by definition, it is then not an algorithm, right?” | 27 |
| 23 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “To be fair, they also were not what I asked about. I don’t think people would put religious programming in the same bracket as lifestyle programming, or gameshows or quizzes.” | 30 |
| 23 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “Yes, but I was specifically not talking about the things at that end of the spectrum. However, I am done. Thank you” | 22 |
| 23 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “When people talk in a scale context about a public service algorithm, what do they mean? The iPlayer has an algorithm. It might be a really basic algorithm, but it is definitely an algorithm. When children go on it and click “Kids”, they get content that is not shown when an adult goes on it. If someone has been watchi…” | 105 |
| 23 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “Finally from me, I said at the start that when it comes to prominence, some things are more controversial than others. Kids’ TV and news are at the very uncontroversial end; is that the extent of the ambition, or do people mean prominence for lifestyle content and lifestyle programmes on Pinterest?” | 51 |
| 23 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “Are you at liberty to give your own thoughts on what the end state looks like?” | 16 |
| 23 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “What do you say, Helen?” | 5 |
| 23 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “You say that you have never been a snob, and I certainly will not accuse you of being a snob, but that is about what counts within public service broadcast content. There is another question about whether something else on Pinterest, or any other platform that one might think of, has an equal call on people’s time and …” | 59 |
| 23 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “Okay, let’s talk about newspapers. If I make prominent a little snippet of text that I have just copied from thetimes.com, The Times gets no remuneration for that at all, because nobody has any need to go to The Times website or app or what have you; I have just consumed my news and no journalist has been paid. How man…” | 68 |
| 23 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “They already do that?” | 4 |
| 23 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “Helen, you anticipate my next question. Of course we all want to see local newspapers having prominence, and everyone could probably agree on a small number of publications. I have just looked this up: we abolished licensing of the press on 3 May 1695. In the modern world, who would decide, “This is a real newspaper, b…” | 60 |
| 23 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “I want to talk about prominence, as promised. Some parts of this are more uncontroversial than others. In Committee, we have talked about enhancing prominence for children’s PSB TV content, for example, which I think most people are on board with. With news, I think most people accept that in a world of disinformation,…” | 164 |
| 23 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “Could you say that again? That sounded brilliant. There is a way to define the media without defining it. You should be drafting legislation. That is brilliant—if we can figure that out.” | 32 |