Speeches by Hinds.

“In most sectors of business there are metrics that are commonly used. I worked in the travel trade and there are standard ways that you measure hotel occupancy, revenue per passenger kilometre on a plane, and this, that and the other. Are there common bits of data that you might expect Government Departments, the Arts …”

“It is the buses.”

“Perhaps that is what happens when you have 48 directors. They all need some reading material. A spreadsheet is better than a—”

“Thousands of households in East Hampshire are off grid. They face much bigger swings in energy prices, and of course when their tank happens to run out is a matter of chance. For them, the statement will be good news, but how will the Government ensure that take-up is maximised among vulnerable and low-income customers…”

“Thank you very much. Just on this thing about the system inferring the age of the child. It is true, though, is it not, that there are literally hundreds of thousands of children in this country who have an apparent digital age higher than their actual age? We know that from Ofcom research and other research. Can I ask…”

“I meant reorganisation costs.”

“As with many projections, some things are more uncertain than others. Typically, in business, revenues are really hard to project, but costs are a lot easier. Can the Minister share with us what the costs of the reorganisation are anticipated to be?”

“Yeah!”

“Okay, thank you.”

“It is a great pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mr Vickers. I commend the hon. Member for Surrey Heath (Dr Pinkerton) for bringing this important subject to the House today. It is great to see MPs from across the House here in Westminster Hall, although with 400-odd Labour MPs and quite a few in the south-east these da…”

“That is all I needed to know. So basically, it is an automated system, presumably, which looks for bad content.”

“Why have you not given a plug for Google Classroom, by the way?”

“Come on.”

“Okay, so we are back to my original question before you started talking about how much is greenlisted. My question is does somebody have to watched that programme. So if I see a thing that says Made for Kids on YouTube, do I know that either somebody at the BBC or Channel 5 or whatever, or somebody at YouTube, has watc…”

“It did not sound like it; it sounded like an in-school product to me.”

“Okay. You are quite right. So Google Classroom, Show My Homework and Satchel One—these are some of the big volume players. They do not direct you to a walled garden. They direct you to a video on open YouTube as a general rule.”

“It is off by default, not disabled?”

“Okay. You think there is nobody under 13 watching YouTube regular?”

“I will ask you to write to us because we will be writing to our constituents who will be very interested to hear. Thank you.”

“Okay. Thank you.”