§ 52. Mr. ANDERSONasked the Prime Minister whether, despite the decreased output and consumption of liquor, the profits of the trade have increased for 1917 by £50,000,000; and what further action the Government propose to take?
§ Mr. BONAR LAWI have no data which would enable me to estimate with any accuracy the net profits of the trade, and I can say nothing now in reference to the last part of the question.
§ Sir J. D. REESIf some profits were made in 1917, was it not the first of a long series of years in which the liquor trade made any profit at all?