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Licensing Act 2003

I shall respond to the Minister’s point first. The application form is not just seven pages, because the form entitled ““Application for an existing licence to be converted to a premises licence”” is for a conversion application and it is 27 pages long, including the guidance notes. It is all very well for the Minister to say that people do not have to complete every box. They may not wish to apply for everything, but they have to read the form and decide whether to complete it. The point is the time that it takes to fill it in.