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Select committee: Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee

8th Special Report - Live Music: Government Response to the Committee's Ninth Report

Published 23 July 2019

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At a glance

The government's response

This document responds to 9th Report - Live music.

This is the government's response, published 23 July 2019.

Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.

The Government's response is mixed: it recognises live music's contribution and reports measures taken, but declines or defers several recommendations, giving reasons for each.

  • On regional Music Boards, the Government "notes this recommendation" and says there is "nothing to prevent" the London Music Board model being replicated, adding that such activity should be "driven from the grassroots up".
  • On reviewing the Breaching of Limits on Ticket Sales Regulations within 18 months, it says that would be "too soon" and plans a review "within the usual timeframe set out for Post Implementation Reviews".
  • On a new statutory consultee for music venues in planning, it believes this "would not be appropriate" at this time, and it does not believe post-legislative scrutiny of the Live Music Act 2012 is necessary "at this stage".
  • On a taskforce to support grassroots talent, it "will consider hosting a roundtable" of artists' representatives and appropriate corporate stakeholders for an "initial discussion".

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