§ MR. ARMITAGE (Leeds, Central)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state the total amount awarded as compensation for the suppression of superfluous licences since the coming into force of the Licensing Act, 1904, down to the present time; and how much of this was paid to the actual licensees, distinguishing as to the latter amount between sums paid to 1378 licensees who were merely tenants and those who were both tenants and owners.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Gladstone.) I have no later or further information than that given in the Annual Volume of Licensing Statistics (See, for instance, page 5 of the Volume for 1907), which show that a total sum of £2,301,583 4s. 10d. was paid in compensation for licences extinguished in the years 1905, 1906, and 1907, and that, of the money which was paid in the years 190(5 and 1907, a total sum of £241,004 9s. 3d. went to licence-holders and £1,947,343 19s. 8d. to other parties interested. I am unable to give figures distinguishing between licence-holders who were merely tenants and those who were both tenants and owners.