§ MR. ARNOLD-FORSTER (Croydon)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the amount of spirits sold during the year ending 31st March, 1906, by grocers holding spirit licences in England and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland respectively.
†See (4) Debates, clxxi, 673.
§ (Answered by Mr. Secretary Gladstone.) I find on inquiry of the Board of Inland Revenue that this information does not exist. The amount of spirits sold by grocers holding spirit licences is not distinguished in the Board's Annual Reports, which only give the total amounts of spirits consumed.