Question follow-through · 15654
Licensing Act 2003
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending the Licensing Act 2003 to include a legal definition of the term drunk.
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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, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending the Licensing Act 2003 to include a legal definition of the term drunk.
26 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Nov 2024
Answer published
The High Court has set out in case law (Neale v E 1984) that the word ‘drunk’ should be given its ‘ordinary and natural meaning’.It is an offence under S.141 of the Licensing Act 2003 knowingly to serve alcohol to someone who is drunk. It is also an offen...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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