The Prime Minister’s Intellectual Property Advisor Mike Weatherley MP has championed the contribution of the creative industries to the British economy and urged Government to put additional funds behind the UK’s Police IP Crime Unit.

‘PIPCU’ launched in September last year with £2.56 million in funding from the Government over two years.

However, in a letter to David Cameron and Home Secretary Theresa May, Weatherley made the case for additional funding to be made available to the body after early ...