For Licence issue you must have completed at least 200 hours of flight time, including
a minimum of 100 hours Pilot in command time of which
20 hours must be of cross country flights as Pilot in Command, which must include a cross country flight of at least 300NM in the course of which full stop landings at two aerodromes different from the aerodrome of departure must be made.
Edited to just include the extract from the CAA website.
Pre PPL PIC hours count.
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