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Recommendation 5
5
Rejected
Paragraph: 26
Home Office progress update required on specific spiking offence creation
Conclusion
The Home Office should give the Committee a written update six months from the date of publication of this Report on progress towards creating a separate criminal offence of spiking.
Government Response Summary
The government did not commit to providing the Committee with a six-month written update on the progress towards creating a separate criminal offence for spiking, instead referring to a broader statutory report on spiking to be published in April 2023.
Paragraph Reference:
26
Government Response
Rejected
HM Government
Rejected
The Government recognises the position of the night time industry and, alongside the Security Industry Authority (SIA), has been monitoring reports of shortages within the industry since Autumn 2021, meeting with industry figures including Michael Kill of the Night Time Industry Authority. The SIA publish statistics on the number of licence holders each month.2 The table below (fig.1) sets out the number of active SIA Licence holders in each of the past four years. From this data, we note that there has been a year-on-year increase in the number of both male and female licence holders, and that current levels of licence holders are higher than pre-pandemic levels. 2 SIA licence holders - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) SIA Door Supervisor Licences (June) Year Male Licence Holders Female Licence Holders Total Number of Licence Holders 2022 268,002 30,885 298,887 2021 253,697 28,712 282,409 2020 240,059 27,749 267,808 2019 222,786 25,285 248,071 Fig. 1: Security Industry Authority Door Supervisor licence holders June 2019--2022 We will continue to engage across government and with industry to consider what a support package might look like and will reflect this engagement in the statutory report on spiking due to be published April 2023.3