§ MR. BARNARD (Kidderminster)To ask the Secretary to the Treasury if he will state the number of licensed holders who brew and sell their own beer; and how many barrels did they pay duty upon during the last-known financial year.
(Answered by Mr. Hobhouse.) The number of licensed holders in England and Wales who brew and sell their own beer is given on page 6 of the last Brewers Licences Return (i.e., for the year ending 30th September, 1907, Parliamentary Paper, No. 32, of 1908) as follows:—Victuallers, 2,065; retailers of beer "on" 1,103; retailers of beer "off," 88. In addition, a certain number of the 1,503 common brewers shown on the same page have a victualler's or retailer's business subsidiary to the main business of a brewer, but I have no means of determining how many. I have no information as to the number of barrels on which duty was paid by such licensed holders.