Question follow-through · 104015

Public Houses: Licensing Laws

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of licensing laws for supporting rural and community pubs.

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 7 Jan 2026
Target answer date: 12 Jan 2026
Answer: 15 Jan 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

7 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of licensing laws for supporting rural and community pubs.
12 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Jan 2026
Answer published
Hospitality businesses are vital to our communities, both in town centres and in rural areas. As well as providing local jobs and supporting local supply chains, they help create places where people want to live, work, visit and invest.No assessment has b...

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