Question follow-through · 3850

Sex Establishments: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to amend the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 to remove exceptions to licensing laws that allow sexual entertainment to take place i

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 2 Sept 2024
Target answer date: 4 Sept 2024
Answer: 10 Sept 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

2 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to amend the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 to remove exceptions to licensing laws that allow sexual entertainment to take place i
4 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Sept 2024
Answer published
The 1982 Act gives local authorities who adopt the legislation the ability to regulate lap dancing clubs as sexual entertainment venues. Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 (legislation.gov.uk)

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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