Question follow-through · 84190
Licensing Laws
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of his proposed licensing reforms on local authorities’ ability to refuse harmful alcohol licenses.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 22 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 27 Oct 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of his proposed licensing reforms on local authorities’ ability to refuse harmful alcohol licenses.
27 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Oct 2025
Answer published
The Government is inviting views and evidence to inform the development of a modern, proportionate and enabling licensing system. The Government is inviting views and evidence to inform the development of a modern, proportionate and enabling licensing sys...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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