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In summary, I have a few questions for the Minister. Will the mayor’s strategic licensing statement include pavement and shopfront licensing, because the Bill is silent on that? Does the Minister intend that to be the case, and if not, how will it be prevented? If it is still an open question, can she be explicit about that? As the Mayor of London is potentially piloting this for the rest of the country, how long will the mayor’s pilot last and is there any likelihood of it being extended to other cities or mayoral authorities during the piloting process, or is the pilot intended to be a way of testing it before it is rolled out any further?