§ MR. YOXALL (Nottingham, W.)To: ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if any reports or statistics are in his possession which show that an increase in the amount of trading on Sundays has taken place in England and Wales; and, if so, whether he will lay them on the Table.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Akers-Douglas.) I have no information which would show whether there has been an increase in Sunday trading in England and Wales. Figures as to prosecutions for Sunday trading appear in the annual volumes of Criminal Statistics; but, of course, they do not afford any means of judging the amount of Sunday trading which actually takes place.