Member

New clause 44 and new schedule 2 are silent on the licensing of pavements. The proposal is that there will be an amendment to the 2003 Act, not the London Local Authorities Act 1990, but the licensing of pavements is an important area of licensing in Hackney, and it bleeds into the issue of licensed premises, because a restaurant, pub or business serving drinks may want those pavement premises presenting as a shopfront display. As new schedule 2 does not amend the 1990 Act, I hope the Minister can be explicit about the plan. It is very open-ended as proposed, which means that the Mayor of London and his team could look at pavement licensing. The provision does not seem to exclude that, so I would be grateful if the Minister could be clear about that.