Licensing Act National Security Exemptions

Department for Culture, Media and Sport did not have the information requested.

Dear Department for Culture, Media and Sport,

Please provide:

- The number of national security exemption certificates issued under section 174 of the Licensing Act 2003 since the Act took effect.

- The entities to whom the certificate was issued, the reasons for issue, the minister or department who was responsible for issuing it, and length of validity of the certificate.

Thank you in advance.

Yours faithfully,

Russell Garrett

Russell Garrett left an annotation ()

Legislation in question:

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003...

I have quite a lot of difficulty imagining why you'd have to exempt a location from licensing laws for national security reasons.

I have even more difficulty imagining why disclosing such an exemption exists would have national security implications. But we shall see.

HALPERN DANIEL,

Dear Mr Garrett

FOI CASE: 163112

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request about the Licensing Act.

We are dealing with your request under the Freedom of Information Act
2000.

We aim to reply to your request within 20 working days following the day
we receive your request.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if I can be of further assistance.

Yours sincerely,

Daniel Halpern

Freedom of Information Team

Public Engagement and Recognition Unit

Tel: 0207 211 6919

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Our Ref: 163112

Dear Mr Garrett,

Thank you for your request of 12 January 2011 asking for the following:

"The number of national security exemption certificates issued under
section 174 of the Licensing Act 2003 since the Act took effect.

The entities to whom the certificate was issued, the reasons for issue,
the minister or department who was responsible for issuing it, and length
of validity of the certificate."

The Home Office is now responsible for the Licensing Act 2003. The DCMS
itself holds no records on the number of national security exemption
certificates granted since the 2003 Act came into force and has no records
identifying premises in respect of which such certificates may or may not
have been granted.

If you require any further assistance please do not hesitate to contact
the department.

Kind regards,

Freedom of Information Team

Department for Culture Media and Sport

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