The Tories shadow culture minister Ed Vaizey (inset), who brands the recent paper - Changes In Live Music Between 2005 and 2009 - as misrepresenting the facts, now wants the Government to get behind Lord Clement-Jones's Live Music Bill ,which is moving into the House of Commons next month.

Using research compiled by Live Music Forum member Hamish Birchall, the Conservatives have jumped on how statistics are presented in the recent DCMS report.

One suggestion, for example, is that the ...