Alcohol and late night refreshment statistics for year ending 31 March 2018

The Home Office has published alcohol and late night refreshment licensing statistics for England and Wales for the year ending 31 March 2018. They can be downloaded below.

The statistics cannot be regarded as 100% reliable because they include imputed estimates for the licensing authorities unable to supply data and the figures are rounded to the nearest hundred. However, they indicate that as at 31 March 2018, compared with the previous year:

  • there were:
    • 723,800 personal licences, a 5% increase (35,600);
    • 212,800 premises licences, a 1% increase (1,100);
    • 14,100 club premises certificates, a 1% decrease (200);
    • 8,100 premises with 24-hour alcohol licences, a 6% increase,
    • 600 licence reviews carried out, continuing the long term decline since 2010 (1,300), although the figures have slightly increased in the year to 31 March 2018, with:
      • the licence suspended in 48 cases,
      • other conditions added or modified in 23 cases,
      • the operating hours modified in 6 cases,
      • the designated premises supervisor removed in 6 cases and
      • the licensable activity partially restricted in 4 cases;
    • 85 applications for an expedited review (and interim steps taken for 70 expedited reviews);
    • 26 personal licence revocations;
    • 147,200 Temporary Event Notices, a 6% increase (8,900):
    • 222 cumulative impact areas in place (just under a third of which – 65 or 29% – are in London);
  • £1.7 million had been raised by late night levies