Licensing

12 Jan 2022

Call for proposals | Age verification technology in alcohol sales

The Home Office has recently issued a call for proposals for technological solution to facilitate digital solutions to ID verification in the sphere of alcohol sales. The Home Office has worked with the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OP...

12 Jan 2022

Fans to return to Scottish stadiums next week

  The Scottish Government has announced that some restrictions which were put in place towards the end of 2021 to combat the rise is Omicron cases in Scotland, are to be lifted on Monday 17 January 2022, but restrictions on indoor events and...

07 Jan 2022

Ireland Minimum Pricing and its Consequences

Ireland have now implemented minimum unit pricing in similar terms to what already exists in Scotland and Wales alcohol will have a minimum price based on the number of grams of alcohol, with one gram costing a minimum of 10c (8.5p). Spirits will...

04 Jan 2022

Covid 19 - Omicron Hospitality and Leisure Grant

Additional information has been released between Christmas and the New Year on applications for the latest support grants for hospitality, as previously these will be administered by Local authorities To recap there is a subsidy allowance which c...

30 Dec 2021

Consultation to extend licensing hours for Queen's Platinum Jubilee

The Government will seek to extend licensing hours across England and Wales in celebration of The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee on 2 June 2022. In anticipation of the celebrations, the Home Offce will launch a public consultation on extending li...

24 Dec 2021

Covid 19 - Government release guidance on mandatory COVID checks

The government have now released guidance for when certain events in England are required to undertake reasonable measures to ensure that attendees aged 18 or above are either fully vaccinated, or have a negative result from a Test and Trace withi...