Question follow-through · 42254
Licensing Laws
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of changes to (a) pavement licences and (b) take-away pints on regulatory costs for businesses.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 28 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 3 Apr 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of changes to (a) pavement licences and (b) take-away pints on regulatory costs for businesses.
1 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Apr 2025
Answer published
I refer the Hon Member to the Written Ministerial Statement I made to the House on 27 Feb on the lapse of the easement on takeaway pints.A new impact assessment relating to the lapse of the easement was not required as no new policy or legislation has bee...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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