England & Wales

15 Sep 2022

Licensing Hours over the Extra Bank Holiday to mark the Queens Funeral

Many licencees have the benefit on a nonstandard timings relating to Bank Holidays, which extends the hours of operation. These are used for our traditional Bank Holiday dates of Easter, early and late May, August and around Christmas and New Year...

15 Sep 2022

Nottingham Revokes Late Night Levy

We have previously reported that Nottingham City Council was reviewing whether to retain its Late Night Levy which was introduced in 2014. Earlier this year the Licensing Committee for Nottingham City Council recommended to the full Council that t...

20 Jul 2022

Spiking - Government response to Ninth report of Home Affairs Committee

On 26th April the Home Affairs Committee published its Ninth Report of session 2021 -22 which dealt with Drinks Spiking. The Government has now published its response to this report. The initial report made 12 recommendations and the full Govern...

15 Jul 2022

Private Members 'Tips' Bill receives Government Backing

The Employment (Allocation of Tips) Bill, introduced by Dean Russell MP has today (Friday 15th July) undergone its ‘second reading’ in the legislative process and has now been backed by the government. The aim of the Bill is to ensure...

15 Jul 2022

Home Office States Automatic Off-Licence Provision to be extended

In a letter to the IoL Chairman, Dan Davies, on Thursday the Home Office has confirmed plans to extend the automatic provision for off-sales to licences in England & Wales. During Covid the Government made several interventions to support the...

13 Jul 2022

Off sales relaxations to end?

In May 2022, we reported on the comments of Paul Regan of the Neighbourhood Crime Unit at the Home Office who wrote to Licensing Authorities stating in respect of pandemic related off sales relaxations: “given the absence of Covid restricti...