Minister denies music licensing change will cost sector £20m 0

Finance | Gareth Jones | 11 Mar 2010

Minister for the third sector Angela Smith has been challenged to reveal the true cost to charities of the forthcoming music licensing changes, after she claimed in Parliament that the predicted figure of £20m was “an overstatement”.

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