Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many cases of adjudication the Pubs Code Adjudicator has considered since July.
As of 26 July 2017, the Pubs Code Adjudicator (PCA) has accepted 156 referrals for arbitration and has made awards in 48 cases. Further information is available on the GOV.UK website.
The PCA’s annual report sets out the time taken to complete the arbitration process. As of 31 March 2017, the PCA had 130 cases under consideration. Of these cases: 17 had been in the process for less than 1 month; 22 for between 1 and 3 months; 79 for between 3 and 6 months; and 12 cases for longer than 6 months. The annual report for 2016/17 is available on the GOV.UK website.