http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2003-03-24.51.0

Our current Prime Minister seemed to care in 2003:

Mr David Cameron (Witney, Conservative)

I apologise to the right hon. Lady for missing the start of her speech, but she has now reached the part of the Bill about which I care a great deal. Is she aware that the morris dancers at Bampton in my constituency have been dancing in the pubs there for 600 years—without a break, as they tell me? The Secretary of State says that it will be easier to get an entertainment licence. Is she aware that, because the dancers have only two musicians accompanying them, they have never had to have a licence before, but that in future they will have to have one? That is going to cost the pubs a lot of money and time. Is it really necessary?

Of course an exemption was subsequently introduced: Can his Govt now contend that the public have been placed at risk by this exemption but would be by a small venues exemption or any other move that will free live music from our council employed vandals?