§ MR. MITCHELL-THOMSON (Lanarkshire, N.W.)To ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he can state the number of six-day hotel licences at present existing in Scotland; and, if not, whether he will procure information as to this.
(Answered by Mr. Lloyd-George.) The number of hotel licences issued in Scotland by the Excise for the year ending 31st March, 1908, under the provisions of Section 43 (4) of the Act 43 and 44 Viet., was 375. But the number of such Excise licences which have been granted upon a justice's or magistrate's certificate for six days is not distinguished in the statistics now available.