Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 87977

Public Houses: Rural Areas

Tabled: 4 November 2025
Answered: 17 November 2025

Question

Joe Morris

LabourHexham

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 4 November 2025 to Question 85401 on Public Houses: Rural Areas, what his planned timeframe is for publishing the outcome from the Call for Evidence on Reforming the licensing

Answer

Kate Dearden
The Government is inviting views and evidence to inform the development of a modern, proportionate and enabling licensing system. A Call for Evidence ran for four weeks until 6 November. This attracted a significant number of responses and work is now und...

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