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Monday, March 24, 2008

Evaluation of the Impact of the Licensing Act 2003


The Licensing Act 2003 saw the biggest reform in licensing law for 40 years. It has impacted on around 190,000 businesses; non-profit making clubs; charity, community and voluntary groups, and almost the entire population of England and Wales who live in the vicinity of, or visit licensed premises.


The new streamlined system has introduced a more proportionate regulation for businesses, and over time should deliver financial and administrative savings for the retail, hospitality, entertainment and leisure industries.

The Government put in place programme of projects to evaluate the impact of the new regime. That programme of evaluation is now complete and DCMS has issued a report outlining the main conclusions from that work:

Andy Burham's written statement on the "Evaluation of the impact of the Licensing Act 2003". [04 March 2008]


More information on the Licensing Act 2003 can be found in the "Alcohol & entertainment" pages of the"What we do" section of this site.

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