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The reason I feel confident that we are pushing at an open door is the amount of work that is under way at the moment. The Secretary of State’s Section 182 guidance was updated on 27 February 2025, but I would argue that it still does not go quite far enough, and I think licensing practitioners and planning practitioners would agree. Then the Department for Business and Trade introduced a policy paper called a “licensing policy sprint”—I think it is more of a slow walk than a sprint, at this stage. Its recommendation 10 was to