Question follow-through · 4527
Hospitality Industry: Smoking
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department has taken to facilitate (a) restaurants and (b) pubs to offer outdoor smoking facilities since 2010.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 6 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 10 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 16 Sept 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department has taken to facilitate (a) restaurants and (b) pubs to offer outdoor smoking facilities since 2010.
10 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Sept 2024
Answer published
The provision of outdoor smoking facilities on the premises of an individual business is currently a matter for the business itself. However, where a business has a pavement license allowing it to have seating on the public highway, the national 'smoke fr...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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