Speeches by Irons.

“I am going to ask a bit about how you are funding your Departments but also about future skills and training and things like that for young people. There is an opportunity for us to use these public buildings to train young people to fill skills gaps in this area. What steps are your Departments taking to secure adequa…”

“What was the impact on the sector of the recent Budget?”

“Going back to that point about making things more long term and a bit more stable, how could Government change their funding structures to encourage long-termism rather than the little projects that you are talking about?”

“I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to make provision about the delivery of youth services by local authorities, including services under section 507B of the Education Act 1996; to require local authorities to specify groups of young people to receive particular services for the purposes of personal a…”

“I welcome the Government’s taking into account deprivation in the multi-year funding settlement. If there was ever a demonstration of what a difference a Labour Government can make, it is this: investment in our poorest communities, not crippling Tory austerity. It looks like in Croydon we are set to get an extra £158 …”

“Would you see that working just with PSBs, or would it include high-quality content from other providers as well?”

“Thank you so much for coming in, and on behalf of all parents who lived through covid, thank you for your content—it saved my life. I want to pick up on some points around public service broadcasting, as someone who had a big TV—to this day, I remember the Channel 4 schools clock as it counted down to the programme. We…”

“But when is a platform not a platform? If the algorithm editorialises what content is there, it is deciding what it is monetising. It is not just surfacing it; it is driving editorial.”

“I understand your cautiousness about a levy, but in this case, from the evidence we have heard, there is a value extraction from the public service content that goes on to these platforms. There is not an equal value exchange, because they have to put up a lot of the up-front costs to make this content. The value is ex…”

“That is a particularly vulnerable age, as you are going into that pre-teen—”

“Finally, if you had a magic wand and you could reverse the high fat and sugar content block on kids’ stuff—obviously, I do not advocate advertising that stuff to kids—maybe investing that revenue directly into kids’ content and lifestyle things would be a better way of—”

“You mentioned earlier that, if you are sponsored, you do not get much money because it is marked as “made for kids”. Please could you explain that categorisation and what happens to your content?”

“Is there something more that could be said about how YouTube is monetising and compensating the BBC for its content? A unique ecosystem is being created. Your views are being driven by the BBC because it is giving you a platform, but then the content on the BBC is getting more views because it is being surfaced on YouT…”

“SeeSaw, or Project Kangaroo?”

“I am going to come to you, Maddie—because you are one of the first digital native brands, essentially; you have had to go cross-platform—to talk about how you make an income. I just want to understand a little bit more about this. We were talking about Bagpuss and all the brands that we remember, growing up. I don’t th…”

“On that, Oli, you have talked about having a UK hub of content, a platform that brings it together, and you mentioned earlier your parenting choices and saying, “Go and watch iPlayer.” I do the same thing. I have said to my youngest son, “You have to watch iPlayer,” or even Netflix, which I feel is a better choice than…”

“YouTube are trying to bring up their own standards; they are talking about their own policy. If the kitemark includes adhering to that policy, you would think the content would surface higher up in the algorithm than other things.”

“Is there some sort of kitemark or something that we could come up with for British content?”

“Would you see that working just with PSBs, or would it include high-quality content from other providers as well?”

“Thank you so much for coming in, and on behalf of all parents who lived through covid, thank you for your content—it saved my life. I want to pick up on some points around public service broadcasting, as someone who had a big TV—to this day, I remember the Channel 4 schools clock as it counted down to the programme. We…”