§ MR. RICHARDSON (Nottingham, S)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he can state how many licensed houses (off licences and on-licences) there are in the city of Nottingham, and how many transfers have taken place during the last ten years.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Gladstone.) The Licensing Statistics show that on 1st January, 1907, the last date for which exact figures are available, there were 579 on-licences in the city of Nottingham and 468 off-licences; total, 1,047. I have no information as to the number of transfers of licences which have taken place in Nottingham in the last ten years.
§ MR. RICHARDSONTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will supply to the Parliamentary representative of South Nottingham a. list of the names of the licence-holders in the city of Nottingham, and the length of time that each has held his present licence.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Gladstone.) The information desired by the hon Member will, I think, so far as it is available at all, be found in the register of licences required by Section 36 of the Licensing Act, 1872, to be kept by the clerk to the licensing justices. The statute provides that the register is open on the payment of a shilling to be inspected and copied by any ratepayer, and I am afraid I must refer the hon. Member to that source.