§ MR. BARNARDI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he can state the amount of compensation paid to the houses suppressed in 1905–6 which were assessed under Schedule A at £20,145; and what amount of compensation these houses, now assessed under Schedule A at £14,442, would have received in each of the thirteen years reduction period of the Licensing Bill.
§ *MR. GLADSTONEI am informed by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue that the total amount of compensation awarded by them in the years 1905 and 1906, in respect of the houses assessed in the aggregate to Schedule A at £20,145, was £455,117. To answer the second part of the Question would involve complicated calculations which, in view of the provisions of Clause 45 of the Bill, could not, in my opinion, be made with any approach to accuracy.
§ MR. BARNARDCannot the right hon. Gentleman try it and thus enable us to discuss the Raport stage of the Bill with some knowledge of the facts?
§ *MR. GLADSTONEreplied in the negative.
§ MR. JAMES HOPE (Sheffield, Central)Cannot we have the figures for the first of the thirteen years' reduction period?
§ *MR. GLADSTONEIt is hardly a matter for me to deal with.