Question follow-through · 44340
Security: Companies
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing mandatory business licensing for the private security sector.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 4 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 22 Apr 2025 · 18 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing mandatory business licensing for the private security sector.
22 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Government is committed to reviewing the recommendations of the Manchester Arena Inquiry, including Monitored Recommendation 8, with a view to delivering better uniformity of standards in the private security industry, enhanced provision of security s...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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