UK Music Chief responds to business rate cuts for pubs and venues and calls for same protections for recording studios

UK Music Chief Executive Tom Kiehl responds to the Government's announcement that it is to cut business rates for pubs and live music venues by 20% as of April 2027.

UK Music Chief Executive Tom Kiehl said: "We welcome this much needed support for live music venues. These spaces are essential to the future of our world-leading music industry and serve as vital cultural hubs for communities right across the UK. We have lost too many venues to soaring business rates and these cuts offer a crucial lifeline to those still struggling to make ends meet.

"However, the Government must extend this lifeline to our world class recording studios. We have lost - and continue to lose - far too many of these spaces, without which our industry simply wouldn't exist. As a lifelong music fan, the Prime Minister knows full well how essential these spaces are, not only for the future prosperity of our industry, but for communities the length and breadth of the country. We urge him to include studios in this policy and offer them the protection they so urgently need and deserve."