§ MR. CLAUDE HAY (Shoreditch, Hoxton)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make arrangements through the Receiver of the Metropolitan Police district whereby the several chief clerks of the Metropolitan Police Courts shall be required to forward monthly or quarterly statements to the councils of the Metropolitan boroughs and all other local authorities within that district, showing the fees, fines, and costs due and payable to them under the provisions of the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, the Public Health (London) Acts, the Summary Jurisdiction Acts, and other statutes or by-laws made there under; and if he will issue an Order to that effect at the end of the current 660 financial year, viz., on the 31st March, 1907.
§ MR. GLADSTONEThe preparation of periodical returns as suggested would occupy considerable time; and, as at present advised, I see no sufficient reason for altering the existing practice. Any representations on this subject by the local authorities concerned would of course receive my careful consideration.