MR. LEIGHTOXI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he can inform the House what is the proportion of prosecutions for drunkenness per 100,000 of the population in Scotland, where the public-houses are closed during the whole of Sunday, as compared with England, where they are not closed during the whole of that day?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENTThe proportion of prosecutions for drunkenness per 100,000 of the population is in England and Wales 645, in Scotland 966. I must point out, however, that the Scotch law as to drunkenness and its administration 827 differ so much from English law and administration that it is difficult to draw any trustworthy conclusion from a comparison of the figures for the two countries.