Question follow-through · 68804
Anti-social Behaviour: Urban Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of reforming the Licensing Act 2003 to tackle anti-social behaviour in town centres.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 17 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 25 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of reforming the Licensing Act 2003 to tackle anti-social behaviour in town centres.
21 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Jul 2025
Answer published
The Licensing Act 2003 provides licensing authorities with significant powers of review where problems associated with the licensing objectives occur, including those relating to the four licensing objectives: the prevention of crime and disorder; public ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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