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Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Bill [HL]

I respectfully say to the Minister that it does not clarify the position. We will have a system with a register and website, and the local authority will know that a multiple of some sort, which has a business in its area, enjoys the protection of a primary authority. They will be able to look that up. But if it is a brewery which owns a lot of pubs, there may be a primary authority which looks after that brewery overall. However, it is not true to say that, merely because it is on the register, the local authority will know whether a particular pub is subject to overall control by the brewery or whether it is in the hands of a tenant who can do more or less what they wish in terms of health and safety, hygiene and all the rest of it. How is the local authority to know on which side of the line a particular outlet falls? I do not see anything in the Bill that helps us.