Speeches by Nandy.

“These are conversations that I have been having very closely with my colleague Peter Kyle. As a Government, we take the view that AI offers enormous opportunities for this country, for public service reform, for growth in the economy, and for the creative industries. But we also recognise that there are challenges that…”

“Let me reassure you first of all that we take very seriously the right of people to proper remuneration for their own work. We are a Labour Government; we feel very strongly about that. The Prime Minister set out that argument in a Guardian article a few months ago. We are about to consult on this specific issue. We ar…”

“Yes. There is no split between our Department and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology on this issue. Both Peter Kyle and I see the enormous potential in AI, but we also see the risk to the creative industries, which are among our fastest-growing industries with the potential for good jobs and growth i…”

“I want to say imminently but I do not know if that is—”

“We know it is something that we need to get moving on.”

“The Bill now adds the women’s professional leagues to the list of persons to whom the regulator may disclose information, so we have strengthened the provision around that, but let me take that specific point away and have a look at it.”

“We looked at this, as did the previous Government. We think that at present it is not the right decision to include the women’s game in the Bill, but it is obviously something that we will keep under consideration as the women’s game develops.”

“I can take that away and look at it. I think the figures that you just gave are shocking. Yesterday, I was in Bristol doing an event with the historian David Olusoga about representation in the creative industries. He painted a very similar story of it being far easier, if you are from an ethnic minority background, to…”

“We fully recognise the importance of fans—part of the intention of the Bill is to put fans at the heart of the game—but also of players. This is something that I have discussed recently with Baroness O’Grady—I think that she is a baroness—over in the other place. In the Bill, the regulator has statutory duties to consu…”

“Yes I do, actually. This has been a very thoughtful piece of work by Tracey Crouch through the fan-led review that fans across this country have taken seriously and engaged in. Too many fans have been in the situation—like James’s constituents, like mine—of seeing their clubs either collapse or be on the verge of colla…”

“As you know, the regime that we currently have puts some, but not all, information into the public domain. It might be helpful for Susannah to explain that a bit further.”

“We are talking about how we want the media landscape to operate. Plurality is obviously a really important principle: we want to make sure that a range of views and voices can be heard. One of those elements is national media but there is also local and regional media, which you know that I am particularly exercised ab…”

“I will turn to the Permanent Secretary for a bit of advice about how to navigate this. I want to make sure that I don’t fall foul of the law.”

“I am afraid I will have to recuse myself from answering questions on this issue because I have a quasi-judicial role as the Secretary of State. I am the single decision maker when it comes to decisions about whether to exercise the power that you mentioned and how to respond to the information that I receive. So, I am …”

“I had the pleasure of meeting Sir Mo Farah recently. We did a few laps up and down Downing Street, which I won—no, I joke, I did not win. He is an incredible campaigner on this issue and he talked very movingly and passionately about how sport saved his life as a teenager coming to the UK in such horrendous circumstanc…”

“As Damian said earlier, when you protect time on the curriculum, you remove two things. You remove other things, because not everything can be a priority, and you also remove flexibility for the teaching workforce to be able to look at the children in front of them in the classroom and make a decision about what they w…”

“There is a formal process that we have to follow as part of the charter review negotiations. The Permanent Secretary is very helpfully waving a piece of paper in front of me that explains it. I asked for a briefing from officials about this because we have to consult with Parliament and obviously this Committee is the …”

“As I said, nothing is off the table. One of the things that we have already done is that in the first week that I was appointed I asked for a report from the BBC about non-payment of the licence fee and prosecutions. You will know that 75% of those who end up prosecuted are women, often very vulnerable women. That can’…”

“I am not sure that Britney was ever part of youth culture but it certainly isn’t nowadays. I will be completely honest with you: it is not something that I have given a lot of thought to, but I will be happy to look at it.”

“Very much so. One of the things about the BBC is that wherever you go in television and the creative industries as a whole, the BBC has usually played some kind of role in the success of those other institutions. It is an incredibly important part of the ecosystem. So, any reform to the BBC has major impacts on the who…”