Lord Shutt of Greetland (Deputy Chief Whip, House of Lords; Liberal Democrat)

My Lords, my noble friend may well be right about that. I am afraid that I have no news about any timescale for such a Bill.

Trust in the words of Lib Dems?

http://www.thestage.co.uk/features/feature.php/28030/cultivating-culture

So we'll exempt small venues with capacities of less than 200 and go back to the rule where any venue can put on a performance of un-amplified music by one or two people without a licence. That is how we can foster new talent and new community venues. And Liberal Democrats recognise how extraordinarily competitive careers in performance and the arts can be, and how many of the people working in them are struggling.