Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 119307
Licensing Laws
Tabled: 10 March 2026
Answered: 18 March 2026
Question
Sir James Cleverly
Conservative — Braintree
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, further to the National Licensing Policy Framework published on November 2025, for what reason the guidance is non-statutory, and what consideration was given to issuing it as supplementary guidance un
Answer
Kate DeardenThe Licensing Act 2003 provides only for statutory guidance to be issued under section 182, which is limited to guidance on the exercise of functions within the Act and the promotion of the four licensing objectives. The National Licensing Policy Framewor...
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