Question follow-through · 104907
Beer and Public Houses: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to regulate pub-owning companies and breweries with fewer than 500 tied tenants.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 12 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 14 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 19 Jan 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to regulate pub-owning companies and breweries with fewer than 500 tied tenants.
14 Jan 2026
Target answer date
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19 Jan 2026
Answer published
The Government currently has no plans to consider regulating pub owning companies with less than 500 tied tenants, or to regulate breweries. Pub owning businesses that don’t meet the qualifying threshold for the Pubs Code can, however, join a voluntary sc...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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