My reading of the letter and the date - when most of us were not even aware of the wording Government's counter amendment - is slightly different.

The letter is a carve-up. Pitching only for the Goverment's last minute so-called concession and a pure scare-mongering exercise, by referring to the small events exemption as an exemption from all licensing controls. When of course it was nothing of the sort.

Also ignoring that the Government themselves had in fact taken away ALL entertainment licensing controls on any entertainment in any place of public worship, not based on safety but purely on the money burden placed on these establishments.

But this was only an opinion - from a body that does not have the responsibilty for all the aspects