MPs demand pub rescue plan as 284 shut in capital

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Thirty have shut in Westminster and the City since June 2007, 19 in Islington South and Finsbury, the same number in Camberwell and Peckham, 17 in Poplar and Canning Town, 12 in North Southwark and Bermondsey, and 11 in Greenwich and Woolwich.

The constituency-by-constituency figures were published by the Parliamentary Beer Group ahead of a meeting today with ministers who will be urged to intervene.

Group chairman John Grogan said: "The UK's brewing and pub industry is suffering its worst period in a century or more, with many communities losing their pubs and dozens of businesses collapsing.

"It is now a race against time to get the Government to take notice and to act. Our task is to make the future of the community pub every bit as sensitive an issue in 2009 as the future of the community post office was in 2008."

In June 2007, before the smoking ban, there were 6,538 pubs in the capital, said analysts CGA Strategy. Last month there were 284 fewer in London and more than 3,000 fewer across Britain.

The constituency in the capital with the most pubs is Cities of London and Westminster with 933, followed by Holborn and St Pancras with 304. North Southwark and Bermondsey has 213, Bethnal Green and Bow 193, and 182 in Vauxhall and Hackney South and Shoreditch.

This contrasts with Dagenham and Upminster, which each have only about 20 pubs.