Culture Media and Sport written question – answered at on 13 June 2007.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if she will make a statement on the progress of her Department's review of the impact of the Licensing Act 2003 on travelling circuses; and how many responses the Department has received from (a) circuses and (b) local authorities to the survey it is conducting to inform that review.
Following consultation with representatives of the sector, we issued a survey in March asking circuses about their experience of the first year of the new licensing regime. This has now been completed by 22 circus operators and represents a significant proportion of touring tented circuses. We are currently in the process of obtaining responses to a similar survey of licensing authorities in order to assess the extent of regulatory issues relating to circuses. We aim to complete the analysis of these surveys during the summer.
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