John King comments: 'Live music campaigners and lawyers are calling on the Government to clarify live music licensing rules after dismissing recently released figures from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport as "fundamentally flawed".'
Two major problems for the ...latest DCMS live music 'statistics'.
They failed to take account of premises which do not have licensed facilities for provision of 'facilities for making music'. Without this secondary authorisation most performances of live music would probably be illegal.
And, as usual, the 'statistics' include schools, hospitals, public spaces etc.