Popular Music Industry

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — National Heritage – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 3 March 1997.

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Photo of Michael Fabricant Michael Fabricant , Staffordshire Mid 12:00, 3 March 1997

I thank my right hon. Friend for that answer. Does she recall that, in the 1970s, many rock and pop stars left the country because of punitive taxation? Is she delighted that, under the present Conservative Government, the Spice Girls have stayed in this country, and will she congratulate the Spice Girls on winning the best single award in the Brit awards? Was she heartened, as I was, to hear that Margaret Thatcher was the original Spice Girl?