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PE01831: End the ban on background music

Business Industry

Petitioner: Michael Grieve

Status:
Open

Closing Date for Online Petition: 19 November 2020

Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to end the ban on background music in hospitality venues.

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Do you agree the ban on background music should be lifted?

Should operators be able to set appropriate levels of background music?
 

I love listening to music (live and recorded) but as someone with hearing difficulties (I need to wear an aid in each ear to understand words said in a conversation) I find that background music in an environment where I need to listen to speech is one of the banes of my life because it is like adding an electronic 'noise' overlay that just confuses the speech.

Graham Barnes

15:23 on 17 Oct 2020

As social beings, we express ourselves most Beautifully through art, most especially music. Our means of understanding each other and caring for each other is made much easier when music entwines itself around our existence.

Alan McLeod

18:47 on 16 Oct 2020

The ban on background music has a detrimental effect for many people in the hospitality sector with minimal benefit to tackling Covid 19

alexander Haig

13:31 on 08 Oct 2020

Utterly ridiculous. No need for it at all.

Dave Wood

16:51 on 07 Oct 2020

If retail can have background music on with no consequence or closure the hospitality sector must be allowed music.

GARY ANDERSON

16:06 on 07 Oct 2020

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