Speeches by Nandy.

“He did make it clear. In Chris Bryant’s defence I would say that he did. The problem that I had particularly, and I am keen to ensure it does not happen again, is that there are two Secretaries of State who feel very passionately about the creative industries and that people should be paid for their work—we are a Labou…”

“That is really helpful. I absolutely take your point about language. The other thing we have been looking at is around investment in film infrastructure, and particularly around cinemas, which are often the only cultural institution in many parts of the country. I know that my hon. Friend the Member for Leigh, Jo Platt…”

“Of course we will, Damian, but you do these things through consultation, and what we learned through the very many consultation responses that we had and genuinely listened to is that the situation facing the creative industries is not straightforward, because the implications of one approach for publishing is not the …”

“Thank you.”

“I will give you a general sense of how we are approaching this and if you then have any specific follow-ups, please press me. The first thing we have done is take a place-based approach to the way that we work in the Department. We have developed a place-based tool that enables us to zoom in to every part of the countr…”

“No, I was not. This is a really difficult issue to solve and people feel very strongly about it, for all the right reasons. The creative industries are one of the most important industries in this country and something that we are really good at. We lead the world, and we light up the world through our creative industr…”

“Because ours has not.”

“Yes.”

“This is an issue that I have taken a personal interest in. It was raised with me by my former counterpart Stuart Andrew MP, who has had a number of issues in his constituency. It is something that I have also discussed with the Chair of the Committee in recent months. We are obviously very concerned about the closures.…”

“We are very concerned. In discussions with the company, it has said that it has a business case and that the business case is clear. However, it has caused significant job losses in parts of the country where those jobs were very important. It has also been a real blow to many families for whom those were holidays that…”

“One of the approaches this Government have taken is that we have changed the approach from the last Government, where decisions were made from Whitehall and imposed on communities. We are very keen to work with local communities to help them to realise their own ambitions for those sites. I have been in touch with a nu…”

“I am being optimistic here. There are people across the tech companies and the creative industries who feel very passionately that we have to find a solution to this, who understand both the power of AI and what it can bring, the power of the creative industries, and the need to protect and future-proof them. I have be…”

“That is a question for the Prime Minister, not for me. Having been through reshuffles in your own time, some of you will know that people are not often taken into the confidence of the Prime Minister about why decisions are made. What I would say, though, is that the new Secretary of State Liz Kendall and I discussed t…”

“I have previously said that if we have to act to put this on a statutory footing, we will, but we would of course prefer that the industry gets there itself. The 50% target remains. I have already had a conversation with the new Minister for music, Ian Murray, who is very committed to this, and we will continue to take…”

“Yes, I would. That is something we have discussed across Government and agreed that, after we have worked through the issues with tech companies and the creative industries to get to a consensus, we will do jointly across DSIT and DCMS when we return to Parliament.”

“I was. As you all know, it was a difficult spending review. We inherited a difficult financial environment, and our sectors are often vulnerable in that sort of situation. I was really pleased that we were able to come out roughly flat in terms of our spending settlement—around £9 billion over the spending review perio…”

“Yes. The financial situation facing the country is still very challenging and we are going to have to make trade-offs and choices. At the moment, we are looking at that through business planning and I have met with several members of the Committee and heard representations from many parliamentarians about their priorit…”

“It absolutely is. Without undermining the incredible work that Minister Bryant did, that was my request as the Secretary of State. As you would imagine with Minister Bryant, the 10-point plan for music then became a 110-point plan for music, but we are working at pace to make sure we are in a position to announce somet…”

“Before the general election and before I was in post—I did not shadow this brief in opposition—the Prime Minister ruled out implementing Leveson 2 in full. We believe that the situation has changed quite significantly since Lord Leveson produced the second part of his report, and we share the view of the last Governmen…”

“I do not want to pre-empt the work that we are doing through the working groups, but that is one of the key questions that we are working through at the moment. The way that we have established the process is that there are three roundtables, the third of which we are shortly about to chair and hold. Then, we will take…”