Giving evidence to the Business Innovation and Skills select committee this morning, UK Music ceo Feargal Sharkey told committee chairman Adrian Bailey MP and his team that it is his ambition that the industry becomes the "number one exporter of music in the world".

But, to get even close to that he and his colleagues giving evidence - they included Beggars Group international managing director Paul Redding and PACT chief executive John McVay - stressed that they needed strategic support ...