Licences and licence applications

A to Z

• Amusement permit (Northern Ireland)
• Apply for a child performance licence
• Approval for a centre to offer qualifications (Scotland)
• Art therapist registration
• Cattle movement notification (Wales)
• Check if an animal medicine is licensed
• Check if an online animal medicine retailer is accredited
• Electronic licence to report pig movements
• Food premises approval (England)
• Food premises approval (Northern Ireland)
• Food premises approval (Scotland)
• Food premises approval (Wales)
• House in multiple occupation licence
• House in multiple occupation licence (Scotland)
• House to house charitable collections licence (Northern Ireland)
• House to house collection licence (England and Wales)
• Licence finder
• Licence to possess or sell drug precursor chemicals
• Machine Games Duty
• Register a house in multiple occupation (Northern Ireland)
• Register or renew as a waste carrier or broker (Northern Ireland)
• Register or renew as a waste carrier or broker (Scotland)
• Register or renew as a waste carrier, broker or dealer (England)
• Register or renew as a waste carrier, broker or dealer (Wales)
• Road occupation licence (Scotland)
• Road occupation licence for building work (England and Wales)
• Scrap metal dealer licence (England and Wales)
• Skip licence (England and Wales)
• Skip licence (Scotland)
• Slaughterman licence (Northern Ireland)
• Street collection licence (England & Wales)
• Street trading licence (England and Wales)
• Temporary Events Notice (England and Wales)

Detailed guidance

• Licensing
• Oil and gas licensing

Business and self-employed

• Setting up

  Includes self-employment and starting a business

• Business tax

  Includes Corporation Tax, Capital Gains Tax, Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) and VAT

• Business finance and support

  Finding finance, business support, writing a business plan

• Running a limited company

  Includes registering, setting up, company accounts and tax returns

• Expenses and employee benefits

  Includes company cars and paying tax on employee benefits

• Business debt and bankruptcy

  Includes bankruptcy, insolvency and recovering debt

• Business premises and business rates

  Includes leases, renting, planning permission, waste and appeals

• Food, catering and retail

  Labelling and handling food, transporting, food safety

• Importing

  Includes moving goods in the EU and commodity codes

• Exporting and doing business abroad

  Includes moving goods in the EU and commodity codes

• Licences and licence applications

  Applying for licences for events and businesses

• Selling your business and closing down

  Stopping self-employment, winding up or liquidating a limited company

• Sale of goods and services and data protection

  Includes regulations for online retailers, offering credit and Trading Standards

• Childcare providers

  Includes registering as a childcare provider

• Farming business

  Health and safety, registering and licensing animals, compliance tools, rights and pay

• Manufacturing

  Managing waste, health and safety, regulations

• Patents, trade marks, copyright and designs

  Includes registering, protecting and applying for designs and patents

• Waste and environmental impact

  Includes waste management plans, hazardous waste and preventing pollution

• Scientific research and development

  Includes funding and support scheme guidance

• Generating energy

  Funding, regulations and guidance for energy providers and operators

• Maritime vessels and work at sea

  Includes health and safety onboard, crew, registering vessels

All categories

• Benefits
• Births, deaths, marriages and care
• Business and self-employed
• Childcare and parenting
• Citizenship and living in the UK
• Crime, justice and the law
• Disabled people
• Driving and transport
• Education and learning
• Employing people
• Environment and countryside
• Housing and local services
• Money and tax
• Passports, travel and living abroad
• Visas and immigration
• Working, jobs and pensions