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Licensing

Volume 471: debated on Monday 4 February 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many cumulative impact areas, as defined in guidance issued under section 182 of the Licensing Act 2003, there are in England and Wales, broken down by local authority area. (178827)

The data which the Department for Culture, Media and Sport holds on local authority cumulative impact areas were published in the Department's licensing statistical bulletin on 8 November 2007 and are set out in the following table. The data cover cumulative impact areas in force on 31 March 2007 and are based upon a response rate of 80 per cent. of licensing authorities.

Licensing authority

Cumulative impact areas

Leeds

4

Bexley

3

Newcastle upon Tyne

3

Bristol

2

Bromley

2

Fareham

2

Merton

2

Pembrokeshire

2

Portsmouth

2

Richmond upon Thames

2

Scarborough

2

Trafford

2

Warwick

2

Aylesbury Vale

1

Birmingham

1

Blackpool

1

Blaenau Gwent

1

Bournemouth

1

Bridgend

1

Cardiff

1

Colchester

1

Croydon

1

Dudley

1

Ealing

1

Easington

1

East Hampshire

1

East Staffordshire

1

Eastbourne

1

Hackney

1

Hartlepool

1

Herefordshire

1

Hinckley and Bosworth

1

Isles of Scilly

1

King's Lynn and West Norfolk

1

Lancaster

1

Leicester

1

Lichfield

1

Lincoln

1

Middlesbrough

1

Newcastle-under-Lyme

1

Nottingham

1

Oadby and Wigston

1

Oxford

1

Preston

1

Restormel

1

Shrewsbury and Atcham

1

South Tyneside

1

Southend-on-Sea

1

Torbay

1

Wakefield

1

Watford

1

Windsor and Maidenhead

1

Worthing

1

York

1

Note: The number of. “Cumulative Impact Areas” published on 8 November 2007 for two licensing authorities were incorrect: Melton Licensing Authority had recorded the wrong number of cumulative impact areas as six; it has been amended to zero in the revised statistical bulletin published on 15 January 2008; Warwick's number of cumulative impact areas was incorrectly inputted as four; this has been corrected to two in the revised statistical bulletin published on 15 January 2008.