Question follow-through · 15651

Licensing Laws

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to extend the temporary off-sales regulatory easement in the Business and Planning Act 2020 beyond 31 March 2025.

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 22 Nov 2024
Target answer date: 26 Nov 2024
Answer: 29 Nov 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

22 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to extend the temporary off-sales regulatory easement in the Business and Planning Act 2020 beyond 31 March 2025.
26 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Nov 2024
Answer published
The Home Office conducted a consultation on the future of the temporary off-sales regulatory easement earlier this year. A response will be published in due course.

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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