§ 19. Dr. Winstanleyasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will review the operation of the present method of basing the rating assessments of licensed premises upon barrelage.
§ Mr. Harold LeverNo, Sir. The method has been approved by the courts for many years and I am not aware of 226 any good reason for reviewing its operation.
§ Dr. WinstanleyAre we to deduce from that Answer that the Financial Secretary is wholly satisfied with the arrangement whereby the landlord's private residential rooms in a public house, which may amount to more than a third of the whole, are rated according to the amount of beer sold in the public rooms?
§ Mr. LeverI am satisfied that this method of assessing the rental value of the premises as a whole is reasonable and fair, and the courts have so found.