Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the implications for cumulative impact zones of the temporary licensing provisions in the Business and Planning Bill automatically to enable any premises with a licence to sell alcohol also to sell off-sales.
The purpose of the temporary licensing provisions in the Business and Planning Bill is to support licensed premises in re-opening after the covid-19 lockdown. In the light of this, the Government considers it inappropriate to exclude premises located in cumulative impact zones.