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Creative Industries

It is a delight to appear in this important debate under your chairmanship, Mr. Weir. I did not mean to cut off the hon. Member for Bath (Mr. Foster) in his prime. He is my parliamentary mentor; he has guided me for the past three years in this place and, indeed, for many years before. He is a man of passion and commitment, but I simply wished to indicate to him that he was approaching his allotted time and might wish to start to apply the brakes. I did not mean him to come to a juddering halt. I apologise if that was the result of my gesticulation. One problem that I have is that much of what the hon. Gentleman said was what I was going to say.