Costs Of Policing Entertainment Areas

EDM number 103 in 2006-07, proposed by Mike Hancock on 15/11/2006.

That this House believes that the cost of policing entertainment areas at night in towns and cities across the country should not fall entirely on the central or council taxpayer; futher believes that provision should be made to provide a mechanism for the general control of anti-social behaviour by individuals once they are away from the vicinity of licensed premises; and to this end, and working on the principle that the polluter should pay, urges the Government to grant local authorities mandatory powers to impose a levy on premises throughout the country whose customers cause an unwanted burden on policing and clean-up costs.

This motion has been signed by a total of 29 MPs.