pub tenants a better deal with landlords. In Scotland, around 750 pubs are "tied" to a particular brewery or company, meaning tenants rent from pub owners with an obligation to purchase alcohol from a particular firm.
Scottish Labour MSP Neil Bibby had hoped his plan would create a statutory pubs code to regulate the relationship and set up an independent adjudicator to enforce the code.
Bibby argued tied pub tenants in Scotland would gain statutory protection, with restrictions eased on the range of drinks they can stock.But in a report today, SNP and Conservative members of Holyrood’s economy committee outnumbered Labour and Green MSPs and turned the plans down at the first stage.
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