§ MR. CARR-GOMM (Southwark, Rotherhithe)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will state the number of defended and undefended actions brought before the Lord Mayor's Court of the City of London by licensed moneylenders during the year 1907.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Gladstone.) I am informed by the registrar of the Lord Mayor's Court that there is no record in the Court books to show by 1705 what classes of persons actions are brought. A litigant sues only in his individual name, and there are no means of identifying any plaintiff as being a moneylender or otherwise.