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Licensing Act 2003

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. I mis-spoke. I meant to say that licensees had to have their application in by 24 November. We would encourage people to get their application in as quickly as possible if they fail to meet the 6 August deadline. I want to make it clear that we have no intention of delaying that 24 November deadline. We have been urged by a large number of organisations not to delay the deadline, including ACPO and a large number of organisations in the industry, which believe that the Act will be helpful to them. We have also been urged not to delay by people who are involved in dealing with antisocial behaviour, who want the new powers that come with the Act so that they can deal with concerns about that.