The following is a transcript of the speech made by Music Publishers Association chair Jackie Alway (pictured) at the organisation's annual Christmas lunch:

Thank you and good afternoon, and on behalf of the MPA, a warm welcome to our annual Christmas lunch. I am delighted to find myself standing here at the Podium from which Stephen Navin evoked the spirit of such copyright greats as Queen Ann and Kafka – often in the same sentence - I feel very privileged ...