§ 2. Viscount SANDONasked the President of the Board of Trade how much money, representing how many exhibitors and what proportion of the whole of them, has been paid up to date to the 660 Government in £10 per day fines under Regulations issued under the 1927 Act for non-application to the Board for licences for the exhibition of cinematograph films?
§ Mr. H. WILLIAMSThe obligation to take out a licence dates only from 1st October last, and already over 4,000 licences have been issued. Proceedings have not up to the present been taken against any exhibitor for failure to apply for a licence.
§ Viscount SANDONCan the hon. Gentleman say how many have not applied?
§ Mr. WILLIAMSI could not at the moment.