HC Deb 28 April 1904 vol 133 cc1429-30
MR. HENDERSON (Durham, Barnard Castle)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state the number of licences which magistrates in county boroughs and non-county boroughs, respectively, refused to renew during each of the past ten years on the grounds that they were no longer required for the neighbourhood; how many such refusals in county boroughs and non-county boroughs respectively, were appealed against, and what number of the refusals were confirmed by quarter sessions.

Licences refused on the sole ground that they were not required. Appeals against all refusals.
Appeal dismissed. Appeal allowed. Appeal abandoned, pending, etc. Total.
1894 County Boroughs 14 17 27 — 44
Non-County Boroughs 6 7 8 — 15
1895 County Boroughs 2 18 10 2 30
Non-County Boroughs 5 7 4 — 11
1896 County Boroughs 2 17 10 2 29
Non-County Boroughs 1 3 2 — 5
1897 County Boroughs 10 17 12 1 30
Non-County Boroughs 2 3 3 2 8
1898 County Boroughs 8 15 22 5 42
Non-County Boroughs 2 1 2 — 3
1900 County Boroughs 33 44 16 2 62
Non-County Boroughs 8 5 5 — 10
1903 County Boroughs 57 47 45 16 108
Non-County Boroughs 35 25 34 9 68
Total County Boroughs 126 175 142 28 345
Non-County Boroughs 59 51 58 11 120

No Returns were published for 1899 and 1901, and in 1902 no general annual

(Answered by Mr. Secretary Akers-Douglas.) The only figures which I can give are contained in the Parliamentary Returns on the subject. In the second column of the table below will be found the numbers of refusals in boroughs on the ground that the licences were not required. It is not possible to distinguish in the figures of appeals between these cases and refusals on other grounds; but the remaining columns of the table show the total number of appeals and the results.

Statement with regard to refusals to renew licences:—

licensing meetings were held outside London.