Speeches by Irons.
Every Hansard contribution by Natasha Irons this parliament, most recent first. Back to the MP page for the headline figures and analysed positions.
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| Date | Debate & contribution | Words |
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| 13 Jul 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “Moving on specifically to the Green Paper, the conversation about prominence, and making it easier for people to find that kind of trustworthy content, is not necessarily that new. As we discussed in the previous session, we regulated in the space of the EPG when that came along, to provide prominence to public service…” | 141 |
| 13 Jul 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “On your point about politicians’ role in spaces like X and drawing attention to those platforms, you are right that algorithms are being loaded and seek to prioritise one view over another; is our role to regulate, and to get in there to try to make that a fairer fight? That was one of my questions to Matt when we last…” | 127 |
| 13 Jul 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “I agree, but going back to that point around sovereignty, information infrastructure, how we protect that and at least making something fair in terms of what people see, surely the argument is that the BBC needs to be bigger in some ways rather than smaller. When you have conversations with the Treasury, how would it g…” | 71 |
| 13 Jul 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “Going back to the BBC being on third-party platforms, specifically YouTube, its argument is that that is where the audience is shifting to—that is where the eyeballs are—so that is where the BBC needs to be. Do you agree with that premise?” | 42 |
| 13 Jul 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “I will try to keep my question short, then. I would like to declare an interest: I used to work for Channel 4, and my husband still works there. Over the last few sessions, the Committee has heard the word “sovereignty” come up quite a lot. In the last session, with the new DG, it came up repeatedly. We have heard evid…” | 135 |
| 13 Jul 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “Very briefly, in defence of working-class kids in London who ended up working in telly, I can assure you that we still exist down here. The point I want to push on is that I appreciate that the BBC and the charter is what we are discussing, but in the context of the wider media landscape, could more pressure be put on …” | 149 |
| 13 Jul 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “We will go back to the Green Paper in a future question, so I will not pick up on that.” | 20 |
| 13 Jul 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “What is the incentive for a commercial player in this when attention and eyeballs drive their revenue? How do we incentivise them to do the right thing in this space where the BBC has to do the right thing?” | 39 |
| 13 Jul 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “What kind of regulatory challenges are there to the BBC being on YouTube?” | 13 |
| 9 Jul 2026 | Health Bill (Fifteenth sitting) “My hon. Friend is making powerful comments. I was struck by his argument that we need to focus more on what we do in communities. In Croydon East, a community diagnostic centre has opened, which is important because people in my community have a healthy life expectancy 10 years lower than that of people living a mile d…” healthsocial-care | 95 |
| 8 Jul 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “I forgot to declare an interest: I used to work at Channel 4 and in Channel 4 streaming, so I am very interested in this area.” | 26 |
| 8 Jul 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “I suppose the issue for the BBC in this space is that, ultimately, you are a media organisation, just as much as X or YouTube is a media organisation, but you are fighting different battles. You will come under the cosh if someone so much as misquotes a politician, and rightly so, whereas there can be a proliferation o…” | 94 |
| 8 Jul 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “No, I would argue that the BBC and YouTube are pretty big. In terms of size and scale—” | 18 |
| 8 Jul 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “Then you should be held to the same standard. If you are being held to a higher standard than YouTube, is that particularly fair?” | 24 |
| 8 Jul 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “Do you think there is space for the Government to do more on disinformation on platforms such as YouTube?” | 19 |
| 8 Jul 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “You must have a view, given the great role you now have.” | 12 |
| 8 Jul 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “Thank you. Many moons ago, in the form of SeeSaw, or Kangaroo, there was a massive project to try to make sure that public service broadcasters were ahead of the game. It is a shame that did not take off.” | 40 |
| 8 Jul 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “What would fair terms look like?” | 6 |
| 8 Jul 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “I have my own fan—I recommend it. On YouTube and moving into that space, the impact of YouTube and the migration of linear audiences on to digital platforms, particularly video streaming platforms, has come up loads of times during the inquiry and here today. Should the BBC be allowed to generate some revenue from adve…” | 57 |
| 8 Jul 2026 | Culture, Media and Sport Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 140) “I will come on to that in a later question. I want to go back to the relationship the BBC has with YouTube. How do we ensure that it is not an extractive relationship on YouTube’s behalf? How do we generate enough income from that to pay for the content the BBC is making to put on YouTube? You talked earlier about pivo…” | 94 |