§ MR. MALCOLM (Suffolk, Stowmarket)On behalf of the honourable Member for Dublin University, I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department by what authority and under what licence intoxicating liquors are sold at bars erected in the corridors of the Royal Courts of Justice, and almost immediately in view of the entrances to the various courts; and whether he will consider the advisability of having the sale of such liquors restricted to the refreshment rooms downstairs?
§ MR. COLLINGSThe licence under which intoxicating liquors are sold at bars in the Royal Courts of Justice is an ordinary six day early closing publican's licence granted by the magistrates of the three divisions on which the buildings stand, namely, the City of London, St. Clement's Danes, and the Liberty of the Rolls, in the Holborn Division. The second part of the Question does not fall within the Secretary of State's jurisdiction.
§ MR. MALCOLMCan the honourable Gentleman say within whose jurisdiction it falls?
§ MR. COLLINGSI believe it is under the Lord Chancellor.