Agenda item

Report of the Director of Markets and Consumer Protection.

The Committee considered a report of the Director of Markets and Consumer Protection which explained that the City Corporation was required to set annual fees for those premises requiring a licence under the Gambling Act 2005.  The report outlined recent case law which indicated that the process for setting the fees must be robust and that income received through the licensing process could not exceed the cost of obtaining that income.

The report set out that the matters considered by the licensing service in setting the proposed fees were discussed and included all aspects, other than enforcement costs which case law currently excluded, within the licensing process. The proposed fees will result in similar income compared with previous years.

It was noted that the fees were the same as last year and had not been increased.

RESOLVED – That Members approve the fees for 2014/15 set out at Appendix 2 (column four) of the report.