McGrath,

To start at your end, http://www.culture.gov.uk/creative_industries/music/livemusicforum.htm is a link to the notes of the first meeting of the Live Music Forum.
It gives good background to the Live Music Forum under Feargal Sharkey.

When do the Houses of Parliament do their stuff? Apparently not in the next two weeks. It appears that it will be referred to a committee in each house which will typically spend a few hours on it. I have found no visibility on the web of such ocmmittees proceedings. I suspect that in practice they either approve or persuade the Minister to go away and modify the draft and then resubmit it. More likely than such a withdrawal is a promise of a further document making minor changes subsequent to approval. It will then go to the floor of each house for approval without debate. It is possible, but unusual for there to be a straight vote at that stage which the Govenrment would win in the Commons and it would be most unusual (at least) for it to lose in the Lords.

Richard