However, in comments made last week by BIS minister John Hayes and others, in what was the first major debate by MPs on the May report on IP and Growth, the digital czar role proposed by Professor Ian Hargreaves and his team appeared to have less of a future.

A number of clear clues to the Government's likely response to Hargreaves were littered through last Thursday's Westminster Hall debate, called by Scottish National Party MP and music industry supporter Pete ...