Schedule 1 - Provision of regulated entertainment
Licensing Bill [Lords]
9:45 am
Mr Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire, Conservative)
So the local authority will not police that. Why, then, would the school bother in the first place even to think about applying for a licence?
It seems to my colleagues and me that capacity is the key. According to the hon. Member for North Durham (Mr. Jones), who is experienced in such matters—there is no doubt in our minds that he speaks with authority—if there are health and safety requirements in situ for an establishment, including a school, those will deal with the safety aspects of having people sitting in the school hall. Those must already have been taken into account.
Mr. Jones indicated assent.