House of Lords Select Committee on the Licensing Act 2003 - Government response

On 4 April 2017, the House of Lords Select Committee on the Licensing Act 2003 published its post-legislative scrutiny report some 11 years after the Act came into force.

A summary of the Committee’s conclusions and recommendations (over 70 in total) can be found in our article from April: 'House of Lords Select Committee on the Licensing Act 2003 - report published'.

The Govemernment has this morning set out its response which can be found here: 'The government response to the report from the House of Lords Select Committee on the Licensing Act 2003'.

We will further comment on the detail of the Government’s response shortly but as a first impression it contains little in the way of appetite to overhaul certain aspects of the Act as suggested by the Select Committee.