Scotland
HoL Select Committee on the Licensing Act 2003: the Health objective and Scotland
At the suggestion of the Clerk to the Committee, we have filed some additional written evidence to the Committee on our experiences of the health objective, and how it works, in Scotland. This will shortly be uploaded to the HoL Committee web pag...
Food Standards Authority Enforcement Statistics published
The Food Standards Authority (FSA) has just published official statistics on food law enforcement by local authorities across the UK for the year 2015/16. The information provided by local authorities and compiled by the FSA, gives a detailed brea...
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Scotland - Edinburgh Board lodging dates 2017
It has just been confirmed that the last lodging dates for the upcoming Edinburgh Licensing Boards are as follows: Board Dates Lodging Dates 30 January 2017 5 December 2016 27 February 2017 9 January 2017 27 March 2017 30 Janyary 2017 24 ...
Scotland - Liquor Licensing Statistics 2015 -16 released
Every year the Scottish Government releases liquor licensing statistics and those for 2015 -16 have just been issued and can be found here: http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Crime-Justice/PubLiquor/LiquLic201516 The figures a...
Scotland - an 'entertaining' licensing change of note!
As we have previously reported, the Air Weapons and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2015 made some changes to the Scottish licensing regime. See our article: 'Scotland - Air Weapon and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2015 - Received Royal Assent'. Those p...
Scotland - Alcohol Focus Scotland regional licensing events
In September 2016, Alcohol Focus Scotland held a series of regional events to share learning around licensing policy and practice. As we look ahead to newly constituted licensing boards with a fresh round of Statements of Licensing Poli...
Scotland – Minimum Pricing - Court of Session decision
The long running saga over the Scottish Government’s intention to introduce a minimum unit price for alcohol of 50p (opposed by the Scotch Whisky Association) may finally be drawing to a close. In December 2015, the European Court of Justic...
National Minimum Wage Statistics
The National Minimum Wage (NMW) sets minimum hourly rates of pay and those rates (which are based on recommendations of the Low Pay Commission (LPC)) vary by age group. AS previously reported, the introduction of the ‘National Living Wage&r...