BPI boss Geoff Taylor has welcomed the British government’s plans to toughen up its anti-piracy provisions, including the temporary suspension of persistent infringers’ broadband connections.”Assuming there is an election in May, then we believe the bill will be in the Queen’s speech and that it should go through,” he tells the Guardian. “Government realised that if you look at a problem of this scale, the measures it was putting forward were not going to be big enough.”He also hits back at criticism of the new plans: “Government is not talking about disconnecting anyone, the debate is around temporary suspension of internet connections as a last resort.”However, despite the BPI’s support, the British government is facing criticism over a report by one of its advisory bodies in May, claiming that there were more than seven million illegal file-sharers in the UK. BBC radio show More or Less has been digging into the origins of this figure, tracing it back to a Juniper Research Jupiter Research report by analyst Mark Mulligan, which was privately commissioned by… the BPI.It’s also picked over the bones of the report’s calculations, suggesting that the real file-sharers figure may be as low as 3.9 million.(Story updated to include correct analyst firm name)