Captain FABERI wish to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will state whether, in the case of large increases of licences being fixed, such as at Portsmouth Town railway station, where the increase works out at £2 8s. 9d. per barrel, or the pier at Brighton, where the increase per barrel is £3 8s., such increases will be chargeable to owners who are in receipt of profit rentals, seeing that such tenancies do not realise their profit out of beer, but chiefly on temperance drinks and eatables of every description?
§ The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Charles Hobhouse)My 1010 right hon. Friend is not sure that he quite understands what is meant by the expression "owners who are in receipt of profit rentals" in this question, but if the expression is intended to refer to cases in which the holder of the licence is under such an obligation to the owner of the premises as is referred to in Clause 32 of the Bill the owner will be under a liability in respect of the Licence Duty.