§ Mr. BOWERMANasked the Home Secretary if he will state the total amount of the fines imposed in the Metropolitan police courts in connection with prosecutions for betting during each of the three years 1907–9, and also the particular fund or funds to which such fines are allocated?
§ Mr. CHURCHILLIt is impossible to obtain this information except by an examination of the books at each of the police courts for the past three years—a work which would involve more labour than the value of the result would justify. The fines paid go to the Metropolitan Police Fund.