But the shadow Environment Secretary, Mary Creagh, called for swift action: "The proposals on the removal of historical abstraction licences, which cause such damage to our environment, are given an end date of 2025, which is far too late".
This gives the evening its dramatic shape and allows Shaffer inventive licence, but it also distorts historical reality.
The film mixes actual historical fact with a degree of dramatic licence.
There are moments of dramatic licence, but overall The Right Stuff is a terrific historical film about the space race: accurately reflective of a complex reality, beautifully filmed, and done with wit, energy and an impressive sense of balance.
Having recreated a world rather than inventing it, the novelist needs licence to see it from an angle that no amount of historical research could provide.
This book raised many issues in relation to the limits of fictional licence (should there be limits?) and what, if any, responsibility for historical accuracy writers owe their readers - young readers, in particular.
The historical association is an incorporated body of volunteers who use the fort under licence from the Minister.
Besides, when it comes to Hollywood taking licence with the truth, or selecting and overstating certain aspects of a historical character, what's new?
That kind of secrecy is far from historical, with the UK accused of allowing a 75percentt increase in its "open licences system" to cover up the extent of current arms sales to Saudi.
Few historical sources exist about Salieri's life, so with this formal structure in place Shaffer could take as much dramatic licence as he liked.
Daldry told an invited audience at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts that while dramatic licence was used to heighten some scenes, a team of seven or eight full-time researchers had worked on historical accuracy.
