Speeches by Irons.

“Given your own experience of setting up a charity, any advice for them?”

“The Arts Council has set up the Featured Artists Coalition, and it has distributed those funds into the LIVE Trust. Is that your preference necessarily? If a body sets up something similar like that or to go straight into LIVE Trust, do you have a preference either way?”

“Finally, do you think the industry believes you when you make your threat about bringing in legislation to make the levy statutory if necessary?”

“Sorry, Jon, you have more talking to do. What is LIVE’s long term funding strategy for the LIVE Trust?”

“It came up earlier that you have just appointed trustees. That is very exciting, but how will you ensure that they remain independent, and also that they have the skills and the support for good governance and keep things in line?”

“We have heard a lot from artists and grassroots music venues, but how will you ensure that the money gets to festivals and promoters as well? Obviously, we have heard a lot about the ecosystem and the wider way that this all connects so how will you support that?”

“What has the feedback from promoters and the festivals that you are working with been at this point?”

“Given your own experience of setting up a charity, any advice for them?”

“The Arts Council has set up the Featured Artists Coalition, and it has distributed those funds into the LIVE Trust. Is that your preference necessarily? If a body sets up something similar like that or to go straight into LIVE Trust, do you have a preference either way?”

“Do you think there is any scope, though, to look at things like something relative to the Featured Artists Coalition for festival promoters, and those other bodies that we are discussing throughout this process?”

“Finally, do you think the industry believes you when you make your threat about bringing in legislation to make the levy statutory if necessary?”

“6. What plans he has to reform NHS health and social care services.”

“Last week, the Centre for Young Lives published a report on the state of mental health support for children and young people across England. It outlines that despite an ongoing crisis in mental health among young people, “There remains a 55% treatment gap” between adult and children’s mental health, and that “fewer tha…”

“The 80th anniversary of VE Day and VJ Day is a time for us to remember and honour those who fought to defend our freedoms, our values and our people. It is also a time to recognise the contribution that veterans from across our country continue to make to their communities. For many of our veterans, their service to th…”

“Lynne, you have spoken before and I want to quote you back to yourself, if you will forgive me. No, sorry, I will quote Jessica who was on earlier. She has talked about women having to choose between taking sexist abuse from men and paying the rent and how “misogyny will wrongly allow women to be labelled as awkward, d…”

“We will come back to that in a bit, if you do not mind. Kate, you have often spoken about having interest from the US when you won your Funny Women award. You are thinking of performers like Gina Yashere and London Hughes, who have gone out there and had big careers. Is that the only way a black woman can be a comedian…”

“Thank you all so much for coming. Picking up on that, when we think about inequalities, we think about class inequality, income inequality, race and gender. Do we think that inequality is ingrained within comedy?”

“—saying it is safe to bring your mum to.”

“Rating system—”

“Are you suggesting some sort of rating system?”