§ MR. F. E. SMITH (Liverpool, Walton)to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether, in view of the declared intention of His Majesty's Government to introduce a Licensing Bill next session, he can see his way to expedite the issue of Licensing Statistics, 1906, in continuation of Licensing Statistics, 1905 [Cd. 2961], issued in May, 1906.
§ (Answered by Mr. Secretary Gladstone.) My Department has already made preparations for bringing out the volume of Licensing Statistics for 1906 at the earliest possible moment; but it has to be remembered that a great deal of the work on the volume cannot even be begun until after the end of the year. The work will be expedited as far as possible.