Written Question·Home Office·UIN 26032

Licensing Laws

Tabled: 23 January 2025
Answered: 31 January 2025

Question

Kevin Hollinrake

Conservative — Thirsk and Malton

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it remains her Department's policy to introduce a unified consent regime to include (a) pavement licensing and (b) licensing consent for the consumption and sale of alcohol in that pavement ar

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson
The previous Government explored the feasibility of creating a unified consent regime that would grant businesses a pavement licence and the ability to sell alcohol for consumption there. Unifying the two regimes did not prove workable, so the then Govern...
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