Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of local authorities' capacity to implement early morning restriction orders on the sale of alcohol.

In 2014 the Home Office sought feedback from local authorities which had consulted on implementing an Early Morning Alcohol Restriction Order (EMRO), and from others which had not actively considered an EMRO. The Home Office has not recently assessed local authorities’ capacity to implement EMROs.