§ MR. D. A. THOMAS (Merthyr Tydvil)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the two alehouses in the division of Miskin Higher, in the County of Glamorgan, the renewal of whose licences was refused in 1906, and in respect to which the sum of £125 was paid in compensation to the licensees, were tied houses, and whether the balance of the total compensation of £1,300 went wholly to the owners of the properties; if he can state what compensation was paid in 1905 in respect to the refusal to renew licences in the divisions of Miskin Higher and Caerphilly Higher, and how much of the total went to the licensees and how much to other parties; and how many licences were refused in those divisions in 1907 for which compensation was paid.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Gladstone.) All the information available on the subject of this Question is given in the annual volumes of Licensing Statistics. I regret that I cannot give further details in regard to individual premises. The volumes show (1) that the two houses referred to in the first part of the Question were beerhouses, they were not "alehouses," i.e., fully licensed premises; (2) that no licences were refused, subject to compensation, in the licensing districts of Miskin Higher and Caerphilly Higher in the year 1905; and (3) that in the year 1907, in these districts, four alehouses and twelve beerhouses were so refused, the compensation in respect of 984 two and six of these houses, respectively, being paid before the end of the year.