Alcohol & entertainment licensing statistics

This statistical bulletin contains information on the number of alcohol, entertainment and late-night refreshment licences and has been published for the first time since the implementation of the Licensing Act 2003.

Latest data
Latest data relate to the number of licences in force at 31st March 2007 and the activity in the preceding 12 month period (1 April 2006 to 31 March 2007). The statistics cover England and Wales.

Last release date
Data were last released on 8 November 2007.

Revision History
Data were last revised on 15 January 2008.
Full explanation of revisions PDF (28kb)

Next release
Autumn 2008

Link to bulletin

Alcohol, Entertainment and Late Night Refreshment Licensing Statistical Bulletin PDF (364kb)
Alcohol, Entertainment and Late Night Refreshment Licensing Statistical Bulletin MS Word (1.3mb)

Links to data only
The data below are supplied as MS Excel (XLS). Each file is under 125kb.

Aggregate tables from bulletin (MS Excel)
Aggregate tables from bulletin PDF (74kb)

Data are also available for at individual Licensing Authority level:

Number of Premises Licences, Club Premises Certificates and Personal Licences by fee band (MS Excel)
Number of Premises Licences and Club Premises Certificates by licensable activity authorised (MS Excel)
Number of premises with 24-hour alcohol licences by premise type (MS Excel)
Number of Cumulative Impact Areas (MS Excel)
Number of licences applied for, granted and refused by type of licence (MS Excel)
Number of police objections to Personal Licence applications (MS Excel)
Number of applications that went to a committee hearing (MS Excel)
Number of appeals completed (MS Excel)
Number of judicial reviews completed (MS Excel)
Number of completed reviews by type of licence (MS Excel)
Action taken following completed reviews (MS Excel)
Number of licences surrendered, lapsed, revoked, forfeited, suspended or withdrawn (MS Excel)
Number of Temporary Event Notices (MS Excel)

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Pre-release access
The following officials and Minister received privileged early access to the last release under the National Statistics code of practice:

For briefing purposes only

Rt Hon James Purnell MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
Gerry Sutcliffe MP, Minister for Sport
Lisa Tremble, DCMS
Linda Martin, DCMS
Kate Pike, DCMS

For briefing and quality assurance purposes

Andrew Cunningham, DCMS
Stuart Roberts, DCMS
David Gookey, DCMS
Shelly Mickleburgh, DCMS

Further Information
For further information on these statistics, please contact licensing.statistics@culture.gsi.gov.uk

A list of frequently asked questions (for Licensing Authorities) that was available during the data collection exercise can also be accessed here: Statistics bulletin 2008 - frequently asked questions for licensing authorities (PDF20kb)

Last updated 9 November 2007

Related information

Statistics bulletin 2008 - frequently asked questions for licensing authorities (PDF 20kb)

previous collection bulletin
Liquor licensing statistical bulletin (PDF 777kb).

previous release
Liquor licensing statistical bulletin (PDF 510kb)contains data up to 2001. It was produced by the Home Office and was published on 14 March 2002.