Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Bill [HL]

The local authority in whose area the tenanted pub or individual franchise operates currently has the regulatory duties. It can go in and take action if there is a breach of something which must be enforced. Is the Minister seriously saying that, before it does so, the local authority must go behind the façade of the business, look at the accounts and the policy statement of the overall owner of the business and decide which side of the line it will fall? If so, it will add greatly to the bureaucracy that the Bill imposes on local authorities. That is extremely undesirable.