7. Mr. HARVEYasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been drawn to the Report of the Commissioner of Metropolitan Police for 1934 on the increase of the low type of proprietary club which is nothing more than a drinking den and generally breaks the law from its inception; and what steps are contemplated to bring them into line with, and under similar supervision to, ordinary licensed premises?
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir John Gilmour)Yes, Sir; but as has been explained on several previous occasions it is not possible, so far as the Government are concerned, to hold out any prospect of amending legislation to deal with the matter in the near future.
Mr. HARVEYIs not the Minister well aware that there is a much better system adopted in Scotland, his native country?