Question follow-through · 41054

Licensing Laws

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Home Office's closed consultation entitled Impact assessment: alcohol in licensed pavement areas, published on 10 May 2024, whether her Department has produced an impact assessme

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 25 Mar 2025
Target answer date: 27 Mar 2025
Answer: 1 Apr 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

25 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Home Office's closed consultation entitled Impact assessment: alcohol in licensed pavement areas, published on 10 May 2024, whether her Department has produced an impact assessme
27 Mar 2025
Target answer date
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1 Apr 2025
Answer published
The previous government ran two consultations in 2023 and 2024 to consider the future of this temporary easement, each accompanied by an impact assessment. The most recent impact assessment, published alongside the 2024 consultation, can be found at Impac...

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