{ "name": "personallicencecoursecost.co.uk Personal Licence Fees and Requirements", "title": "Personal Licence Fees and Requirements", "url": "https://personallicencecoursecost.co.uk/datasets/personal-licence-fees-and-requirements/", "csv": "https://personallicencecoursecost.co.uk/datasets/personal-licence-fees-and-requirements.csv", "markdown": "https://personallicencecoursecost.co.uk/datasets/personal-licence-fees-and-requirements/index.md", "computed_at": "2026-10-28", "license": "https://personallicencecoursecost.co.uk/terms", "headline": "The Personal Licence Fees and Requirements carries 5 published figures read from 5 sources' own pages, from 20 to 50 GBP, read 28 October 2026.", "quotes": [ "The Personal Licence Fees and Requirements carries 5 published figures read from 5 sources' own pages, from 20 to 50 GBP, read 28 October 2026.", "5 of the 8 named sources read in full publish a figure; 3 publish none, read 28 October 2026.", "Personal Licence Fees and Requirements, nation England and Wales: median 28.50 GBP across 2 sources, read 28 October 2026.", "Personal Licence Fees and Requirements, nation Scotland: median 50 GBP across 3 sources, read 28 October 2026." ], "citation": "\"personallicencecoursecost.co.uk Personal Licence Fees and Requirements\", updated 2026-10-28, https://personallicencecoursecost.co.uk/datasets/personal-licence-fees-and-requirements/.", "changed_since": null, "national": { "unit": "GBP", "n": 5, "median": 50, "min": 20, "max": 50, "p25": 28.5, "p75": 50, "mean": 41.4, "units": { "GBP": 5 }, "published_sources": 5, "named_sources": 8, "read_sources": 8, "not_published": 3, "published_share": 0.625 }, "by_axis": { "nation": { "England and Wales": { "GBP": { "n": 2, "median": 28.5, "min": 20, "max": 37, "p25": null, "p75": null, "mean": 28.5 } }, "Scotland": { "GBP": { "n": 3, "median": 50, "min": 50, "max": 50, "p25": 50, "p75": 50, "mean": 50 } } } }, "rows": [ { "source": "The Licensing Act 2003 (Fees) Regulations 2005", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/79/made", "figure": "£37", "value": 37, "unit": "GBP", "vat": null, "axis": { "nation": "England and Wales" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-10-24", "quote": "section 117 (application for a grant or renewal of personal licence) £37", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "a052dfdfc749a67fadfe2d5819e75cab1e0f24e3db0802fa1aea74200efb042c" }, { "source": "Request a basic DBS check - GOV.UK", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/request-copy-criminal-record", "figure": "£20.", "value": 20, "unit": "GBP", "vat": null, "axis": { "nation": "England and Wales" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28", "quote": "It costs £20.", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "bb120481d5a8f0e93ab293749342852679829859f45ce01619c271c8e6e44e0a" }, { "source": "10. Personal Licenses - Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005 section 142: guidance for Licensing", "url": "https://www.gov.scot/publications/licensing-scotland-act-2005-section-142-guidance-licensing-boards/pages/11/", "figure": "£50.", "value": 50, "unit": "GBP", "vat": null, "axis": { "nation": "Scotland" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28", "quote": "10.6 The Licensing (Fees) (Scotland) Regulations 2007 (SSI 2007/553) as amended provide that the fee payable in respect of a personal licence application and a personal licence renewal application is £50.", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "6085303ee47967ae0385583e5e25e4667b556acef21b882016bf8fcf31189f3c" }, { "source": "Personal Licence (to sell alcohol) | Argyll and Bute Council", "url": "https://www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/licences/personal-licence", "figure": "£50 ", "value": 50, "unit": "GBP", "vat": null, "axis": { "nation": "Scotland" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28", "quote": "The fee is £50 and this should be paid by cheque, made payable to Argyll & Bute Council.", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "db5396cb901623e1d60a276b1f25515977f96bab1abd116c1f65a6ce8807f1b7" }, { "source": "Personal Licence - Licensing information and application forms | Scottish Borders Council", "url": "https://www.scotborders.gov.uk/directory-record/22339/personal-licence", "figure": "£50 ", "value": 50, "unit": "GBP", "vat": null, "axis": { "nation": "Scotland" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28", "quote": "£50 - Fees cover costs involved in the application process and are non refundable.", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "2ccf93ffbe431d5a106cdea523b8b58e6a18fe471effac01a770bfdf516e3e46" } ], "not_published": [ { "source": "Personal licence to sell alcohol (England and Wales) - GOV.UK", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/personal-licence-to-sell-alcohol", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "Licensing Act 2003", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/17/section/120", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/16/section/87", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" } ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/personal-licence-to-sell-alcohol", "label": "Personal licence to sell alcohol (England and Wales) - GOV.UK", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/79/made", "label": "The Licensing Act 2003 (Fees) Regulations 2005", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/request-copy-criminal-record", "label": "Request a basic DBS check - GOV.UK", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.gov.scot/publications/licensing-scotland-act-2005-section-142-guidance-licensing-boards/pages/11/", "label": "10. Personal Licenses - Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005 section 142: guidance for Licensing", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/licences/personal-licence", "label": "Personal Licence (to sell alcohol) | Argyll and Bute Council", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.scotborders.gov.uk/directory-record/22339/personal-licence", "label": "Personal Licence - Licensing information and application forms | Scottish Borders Council", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/17/section/120", "label": "Licensing Act 2003", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/16/section/87", "label": "Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" } ], "methodology": "Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 5 of the 8 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 3 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in GBP (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 116 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): the statutory fee per nation (England and Wales £37 under the Licensing Act 2003 (Fees) Regulations 2005; Scotland £50 under the Licensing (Fees) (Scotland) Regulations 2007), the basic criminal record check fee, and the qualification and refresher requirements, joined to the flagship's course price to give the all-in cost of holding a licence", "embed": "

20 to 50 GBP

5 published figures, Personal Licence Fees and Requirements, across 5 sources, read 28 October 2026

Source: personallicencecoursecost.co.uk Personal Licence Fees and Requirements
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