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 161–180 of 1,622 contributions · most-recent first
| Date | Debate & contribution | Words |
|---|---|---|
| 16 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “Finally, to Colin, do you think there is consumer appetite in the free category world for a halfway house? Rather than the BBC having its own content on iPlayer, ITV having ITVX and Channel 4 having All 4 and so on, you could have, either instead of or possibly as well as those separate platforms, a common PSB-type pla…” | 69 |
| 16 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “If you are. Do we have evidence that audiences are being acquired on YouTube and then converting to iPlayer?” | 19 |
| 16 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “You are obviously not talking about the BBC Micro, so what do you mean? Give us a couple of “for instances” of these emerging technologies.” | 25 |
| 16 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “I am showing my age. Hands up who remembers the BBC Micro.” | 12 |
| 16 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “So you are saying a permanent charter is not temporary.” | 10 |
| 16 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “Permanent is continuing—thank you. Hannah, can I come back to what you said in response to Cameron’s questions? You said something about how—I cannot remember the exact phrase—the licence fee should cover not just the BBC. You said something about how critical infrastructure underpins information and democracy, and so …” | 65 |
| 16 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “Hannah, this question is to you again. We have a marketplace now where you have the BBC and a few other public service broadcasters, who all have their own content on a platform—in the BBC’s case, iPlayer. Then you have another set of players who host their own content and some other content, including content from the…” | 76 |
| 16 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “I am asking a simpler question. I am trying to understand if, in a world where on Netflix and on other platforms there is plenty of BBC content, and on YouTube there is more and more BBC content, why would iPlayer survive? Sorry—I have just put in very straightforward terms.” | 50 |
| 16 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “Are you talking about the BBC Micro?” | 7 |
| 16 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “Really—there isn’t public discussion of the output of the BBC? I know we don’t have Barry Took any more, but come on! There are weekly programmes on the BBC about this; newspapers fill acres of newsprint with it. We are talking about it now! We have this whole Select Committee talking about it. Come on, the idea that i…” | 70 |
| 16 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “I wanted to follow up on this. We keep hearing about a permanent charter—it’s the phrase of the year. Everybody says all the things that you have just said. You were talking about a sword of Damocles moment and saying you shouldn’t have that. Of course, you would still need to review performance, as Colin said, and of …” | 96 |
| 16 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “I am showing my age. Hands up who remembers the BBC Micro.” | 12 |
| 16 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “Why does this thing have to be legislated for and enforced? If you are the director general of the BBC, if you are the board, you have an interest in trying to have the best product with the broadest reach possible. You are accountable for how you spend the licence fee. You make creative and commercial judgments based …” | 106 |
| 16 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “All those things—the mission and so on—are very important, but in terms of IRL, crunchy stuff, what is permanent?” | 19 |
| 16 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “You are obviously not talking about the BBC Micro, so what do you mean? Give us a couple of “for instances” of these emerging technologies.” | 25 |
| 16 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “If you can get everything over here, and some things over there, and you are looking for something, what is the motivation to start over here rather than over there? By the way, in the long term it may not be YouTube—there could be a thing on your telly whereby you can just access anybody’s programme on absolutely anyt…” | 66 |
| 16 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “Are you talking about the BBC Micro?” | 7 |
| 16 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “It did not work with BritBox, did it?” | 8 |
| 16 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “Forgive me. All those are important, but none of them is a tangible thing, like an amount of money, a physical location, the scope of which channels you appear on, the media that you cover or the geographical extent of what you do.” | 43 |
| 16 Jun 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “All those things—the mission and so on—are very important, but in terms of IRL, crunchy stuff, what is permanent?” | 19 |