Member

Even now that there will be a clearer line of communication between licensing authorities, a lack of local knowledge, context and history will mean that decisions could still be made in a vacuum. My constituents would agree that local enforcement measures are best carried out by authorities who have local understanding, and that despite the best efforts and intentions, there will still be things that officers in Wolverhampton and Sefton can never know about what is going on in my borough of Rochdale. I would appreciate the Minister’s views on whether gaps in enforcement could remain and what the Government plan to do about that.