60. Mr. LLEWELYN WILLIAMSasked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that men are billeted at the hotels at Carmarthen at the rate of 2s. 3d. per day, while the rate in private houses in the same town is 3s. 4½d. per day; what is the reason for such disparity in the rates; and whether he will see that hostelries which have to pay Licence Duties shall be treated at least on an equality with private houses and temperance hotels?
Mr. BAKERI would refer my hon. Friend to the answer given on the 24th instant to the hon. Member for Great Yarmouth, in which I explained the difference between the position of a private occupier with regard to billeting and that of a licence holder.
Mr. L. WILLIAMSIs the hon. Member aware that owing to the disparity of the rates of billeting some authorities are inclined to billet young soldiers in public-houses instead of private houses, and so increase the temptation to drinking?