Consultation outcome

Pub companies and tenants consultation

• From: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
• Published: 22 April 2013
• Last updated: 26 January 2015 — See all updates

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

This consultation has concluded

Read the full outcome

Pub companies and tenants: government response to the consultation

Ref: BIS/14/873

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Pub companies and tenants: final impact assessment

Ref: BIS/14/868

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Detail of outcome

Outlines how we plan to proceed with the following policies:

• a statutory code to govern the relationship between pub owning companies and their tied tenants
• an independent adjudicator to enforce the code, arbitrate disputes and impose sanctions on pub owning companies if they fail to comply

The impact assessment is not the latest version. See the updated version.

See also:

• the press release
• our response to the BIS Select Committee’s report
• the revised Draft Pubs Code published in November 2014
• the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill factsheet on the Pubs Code Adjudicator and the Pubs Code

Feedback received

Pub companies and tenants: introduction to consultation responses

PDF, 140 KB, 7 pages

Pub companies and tenants: statistical analysis of written consultation responses

PDF, 1.3 MB, 8 pages

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Pub companies and breweries with more than 500 pubs: responses

29.6 MB

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Pub companies and breweries with fewer than 500 pubs, including micro-breweries: responses

10.5 MB

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Pub company and brewery employees: responses

12.1 MB

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Tenants: responses

62.8 MB

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Interest groups, trade bodies and other organisations: responses

20.3 MB

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Supply chain: responses

6.9 MB

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Political representatives: responses

5.37 MB

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Other individuals, eg consumers: responses

9.16 MB

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Online survey responses

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Report by London Economics on modelling the impact of proposed policies on pubs and the pub sector

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Responses received after consultation closing date

6.17 MB

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Detail of feedback received

We received over 1,100 written responses to the consultation and over 7,000 responses to the online questionnaire.

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Original consultation

Summary

Seeks views on government proposals to establish a Statutory Code and an independent Adjudicator for the pubs sector.

This consultation ran from
22 April 2013 to 11:45pm on 14 June 2013

Consultation description

The government is keen to support a thriving and diverse pubs sector. There have been longstanding and serious concerns raised about the relationship between large pub companies and their tenants. The government is consulting on proposals to establish a Statutory Code and an independent Adjudicator for the pubs sector to govern the relationship between large pub companies and their tenants.

In the video below, Jo Swinson, Minister for Employment Relations and Consumer Affairs, and Mike Benner, Chief Executive of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA), discuss the government’s proposals.

Mike Bennett talks to Jo Swinson about the consultation

Documents

Pub companies and tenants: a government consultation

Ref: BIS/13/718

PDF, 375 KB, 67 pages

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Pub companies and tenants: impact assessment

Ref: BIS/13/738

PDF, 212 KB, 27 pages

Published 22 April 2013
Last updated 26 January 2015 + show all updates

1. 26 January 2015

   Added link to updated final impact assessment in 'Detail of outcome' section.

2. 24 October 2014

   Corrected version of impact assessment added. Cost of compliance with enhanced code corrected from £125 per pub to £190 (footnote 59 on page 23). Resulting maximum cost per pub corrected from £210 to £280 (paragraph 106, page 23).

3. 3 June 2014

   Added link to the government response to the BIS Select Committee's report.

4. 3 June 2014

   Added government response, final stage impact assessment and public feedback received after the consultation closing date.

5. 8 January 2014

   Replaced links to response documents posted on Dropbox with zip files stored on the Gov UK web site

6. 13 December 2013

   Public feedback to the consultation and analysis of the feedback added.

7. 22 April 2013

   First published.