Clause 96
Licensing Bill [Lords]
8:55 am
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham, Conservative)
The Minister sets out his argument clearly, but my concern is that people operating premises may use the provision to avoid public scrutiny of activities that they want to undertake and, particularly if we are successful in making later amendments, that will increase the number of temporary event notices that premises may have during a year. People who apply for a temporary event notice should be encouraged to think through the sort of events they might want to put on in those licensed premises, even if it is a village hall wanting to put on a play. They should be thinking about the issues when they apply for the premises licence. They will know what sort of events they usually host and they should be able to cast the terms of the premises licence sufficiently widely to cover the sort of events they want to hold.