Clause 7 - Licensing committees
Licensing Bill [Lords]
3:00 pm
Mr Mark Field (Cities of London and Westminster, Conservative)
It may be said that the quickest and easiest committees are committees of one. That is what I often felt when I was running a business. When I was an employee I took a somewhat different view, but that is life. My argument is that licensing committees will have sub-committees to deal with individual applications. We want to maximise the number of people on the full licensing committee so that there are more people on the sub-committees to deal with day-to-day applications during the transition period.