§ Mr. BOWERMANasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the licensing statistics for the year 1909 will be published; and whether there is any special reason for the apparent delay in publishing them?
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Churchill)I hope that the volume will be issued within a week or two. The reason why it has not been completed as early as in previous years is that the pressure of other work in the Home Office has been increasingly severe.