Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate she has made of the total number of hospitality businesses in England which held The Music Licence and closed in (a) 2018, (b) 2019, (c) 2020, (d) 2021 and (e) 2022.
We have made no estimate in relation to businesses holding ‘TheMusicLicence’.
The Collective Management Organisations ‘PRS for Music’ and ‘Phonographic Performance Limited’ (PPL), which represent copyright owners in the music sector, are responsible for ‘TheMusicLicence’.