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Public Houses: Rural Areas

Commons · Question 87977 · Tabled 4 Nov 2025 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record

Answered 17 Nov 2025

Question

Asked by Joe Morris

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 4 November 2025 to Question 85401 on Public Houses: Rural Areas, what his planned timeframe is for publishing the outcome from the Call for Evidence on Reforming the licensing

Answer

Answered by Kate Dearden, 17 Nov 2025

The Government is inviting views and evidence to inform the development of a modern, proportionate and enabling licensing system. A Call for Evidence ran for four weeks until 6 November. This attracted a significant number of responses and work is now und...