§ MR. WHITBREAD (Huntingdonshire, Huntingdon)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he can give the number of licences for which compensation has been awarded by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue under the Licensing Act, 1904; the total amount of the values of such premises with licence attached; and the total amount of the values of the same premises without the licences.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Gladstone.) I am informed by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue as follows:—The total number of licences for which compensation has been awarded by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue under the Licensing Act, 1904, to the end of the year 1907 is 1,008. The total of the Schedule A assessments of the houses so dealt with by the Inland Revenue during the years 1905 and 1906 (exclusive of premises which have been unoccupied and where consequently no revision of assessment has taken place) was, before the extinction of licences, £20,145, and is at present £14,442. In the case of houses closed so recently as 1907 no reasonable period within which to relet has elapsed, and consequently details have not been collected.