DCMS Entertainment Licensing Statistics in the year to 31 March 2014

Last week the Home Office released the licensing statistics in the year to 31 March 2014.

This week it is the turn of the DCMS who have today released the entertainment licensing statistics for England and Wales in the year to 31 March 2014. They can be found here and also include statistics by individual Licensing Authority. The figures provided consist of a combination of actual returns and modelled estimates for non-respondents.
In brief, the key findings and point of note include:

• 119,300 premises licences authorising regulated entertainment in force on 31 March 2014.
  • 1.3% increase compared to 117,800 licences on 31 March 2013.
  • 91% of these were Premises Licences, 9% were Club Premises Certificates.
• The largest percentage increase between March 2013 and March 2014 were for those covering:
  • indoor sporting events (1.6%); and
  • plays (1.1%).
• There have been decreases in the number of premises licences authorising:
  • entertainment similar to live music, recorded music or dance (-1.7%);
  • live music (-1.5%);
  • boxing or wrestling (-1.2%); and
  • recorded music (-0.9%). 
• The most commonly authorised form of regulated entertainment was recorded music.
  • 83.6% of all premises licences for entertainment covered recorded music (99,800 premises).