Industry News
The 15th National Pubwatch Conference – Tuesday 27th February 2018
The 15th National Pubwatch Conference will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Nottingham on Tuesday 27th February 2018. The conference will provide a valuable platform to share ideas and good practice. It will also provide a surgery where Nationa...
Alcohol Minimum Unit Pricing - Select Committee scrutiny
The Health and Home Affairs Committees of the House of Commons is to consider implications of alcohol Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) with charities, academics, professional bodies and industry on Monday 22 January 2018. The sessio...
Merger to Create "Powerful Unified Voice" for the hospitality sector "UKHospitality"
The Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR) and British Hospitality Association (BHA) have revealed their plans to merge and create a new trade body named “UKHospitality”. It is hoped that this new body will create a “...
Alcohol to be 'grounded' at Airports? Government to Consider Licensing Restrictions
The Government has announced it is considering imposing licensing restrictions on the sale of alcohol in airports. Airports are currently exempt from legislation governing when they can sell alcohol. Last year the House of Lords commented that it...
A Right Royal Knees Up? Home Office Launch Royal Wedding Consultation
A four week consultation has been launched by the Home Office on plans to allow Licensed Premises to open on the nights of Friday the 18th May and Saturday the 19th May until 1am. The Home Secretary Amber Rudd indicated “ The Royal wedding ...
House of Lords Debate
Will 2018 bring further changes to the licensing system? Prior to Christmas the House of Lords undertook a debate arising from the 'The Licensing Act 2003: post-legislative scrutiny' published by them in April of this year and the Government&...
House of Lords to debate Government response to Select Committee Report on the Licensing Act 2003
On Wednesday 20 December, the House of Lords is due to debate the Government’s (limited) response to the recommendations set out in the Select Committee Report – see our article ' Detail on the Government response to the House of ...