Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to amend the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 to remove exceptions to licensing laws that allow sexual entertainment to take place in premises without a sexual entertainment licence.

The 1982 Act gives local authorities who adopt the legislation the ability to regulate lap dancing clubs as sexual entertainment venues. Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 (legislation.gov.uk)