It looks as if they are in a hurry to get the entertainment aspects of the Bill out of the away, so we do not have much time.

Thanks to Terry for the following.

The Minister of State, Department for Culture, Media and Sport (Baroness Blackstone):

My Lords, I beg to move the Motion standing in my name on the
Order Paper. Moved, That it be an instruction to the Committee of the Whole House to which the Licensing Bill [HL] has been committed that they consider the Bill in the following order:

Clause 1,

Schedules 1 and 2,

Clauses 2 to 4,

Clause 177,

Clauses 5 to 8,

Schedule 3,

Clauses 9 to 111,

Schedule 4,

Clauses 112 to 176,

Schedule 5,

Clauses 178 to 196,

Schedules 6 to 8.-(Baroness Blackstone.)

On Question, Motion agreed to.

To save you the trouble of looking those references up,

Clause 1 deals with Licensable Activities and qualifying club activities

Schedule 1 & 2 deal with Provision of Regulated Entertainment, General
definitions and Exemptions and the provision of late night refreshment.

Clause 2 to 4 apply to the licensing authorities (Our friendly local
government officials!)

Clause 177 is the guidance for interpreting the above sections.

The rest you can look up for yourselves. My concern is that the
Entertainment issue has been pushed to the fore in the debate. That would be a major achievement if it were not for the fact that the debate is being forced through BEFORE (again according to Hansard) the government makes the 79 pages of guidance notes fully available to Parliament.

Anyone smell anything fishy here?

If you're pleased to have the matter dealt with so swiftly, no action
required! If not, guess what?

Terry