Sony Music UK CEO and chairman Nick Gatfield has echoed calls for the Government to offer more support to the creative industries, urging tax breaks for music A&R specifically.

Speaking to CBI, Gatfield said that Westminster “continues to be comparatively unsupportive when you look at the value the creative industries bring to the economy.”

Apart from some “very supportive” people, he suggested that “the Government is in thrall to major technology at the expense of the creative arts and ...