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Subject: Fw: entertainment lisence
From: "Keith Williams" <keith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 09:05:00 -0000

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> Dear Mr Williams,
>
> Thank you for your e-mail.
>
> The Licensing Bill is currently being debated in the House of Lords and
> will be introduced in the Commons in March. As Shadow Secretary of State
> for Culture, Media and Sport, I shall be leading for the Conservative
> Party in debates on the Bill.
>
> The Government claim that the Bill is deregulatory. With regards to
> entertainments licensing, it proposes to replace the existing system
> with a single premises licence which will cover both provision of
> entertainment and sale of alcohol. The existing two in a bar rule will
> be removed and all venues in which live music is performed will be
> required to be licensed. This will represent a massive extension of
> regulation, will put up costs and is likely to lead to the loss of
> venues for live music as well as hitting many community groups such as
> your own.
>
> I am in touch with the Musicians Union and several other national
> campaigning groups as well as Tim Aves who organises the Burnham music
> festival. There is a national petition being raised electronically which
> is the same wording as the Early Day Motion which I have tabled in the
> House of Commons. We are already making some progress and have forced
> the Government to promise to look again at the proposal to remove the
> exemption for churches from licensing which currently exists. We will
> continue to press the Government to think again on this whole issue.
>
> With best wishes,
>
> --
> John Whittingdale OBE MP
> Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
> Member of Parliament for Maldon and East Chelmsford
> email: jwhittingdale.mp@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
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