Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 25 April 2018 to Question 136076, how many live music venues have closed in each year since 2010.

This data is not collected by DCMS. We continue working with industry and Whitehall colleagues on a range of issues affecting the live music industry, including announcing last year that the Agent of Change principle will now be included in the National Planning Policy Framework, helping to protect music venues when new housing is built.