Live Music
Culture Media and Sport
Written answers and statements, 7 November 2006
Malcolm Moss (Shadow Minister (Culture, Media & Sport), Culture, Media & Sport; North East Cambridgeshire, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport when the MORI research into live music commissioned by her Department will be published; and why the MORI presentation to the Live Music Forum on its research was cancelled.
Shaun Woodward (Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Media & Tourism), Department for Culture, Media & Sport; St Helens South, Labour)
The Department expects to publish the MORI research into live music in December.
The decision to cancel the MORI presentation was based on our desire to ensure that the data were subject to suitable quality assurance procedures. In addition, presenting to the Forum would not have been consistent with national statistics protocols to ensure equal access to the data for all interested parties, including the Live Music Forum, the Musician's Union and the general public.