I think we have to accept that part of our problem is that DCMS do not have the slightest idea of what sessions, open mics and singarounds are but they have a real obsession with ensuring that karaoke is caught.

The provision of performance of the activity itself is already licensable Regulated Entertainment but they appear to want to prevent unlicensed karaoke at any cost. So to make doubly sure, any facility provided to enable karaoke is also licensable as Entertainment Facilities.

I am quite sure that the legislation could be drafted in such a way as to ensure that the specific activities DCMS are concerned about can be licensable, without making licensable, as Entertainment Facilities, the provision of any faciltiy to enable the public to entertain themselves in music and dancing.