HC Deb 11 March 1910 vol 14 cc1873-4W
Mr. ARMITAGE

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state the number of on-licences and off-licences in England and Wales respectively on 1st January in each of the following years: 1901, 1903, 1904, 1906, 1908, 1909, and 1910?

Mr. CHURCHILL

All available figures as to the number of premises with on-licences and off-licences respectively are published in the annual volumes of Licensing Statistics, and I may refer my hon. Friend to the tables on page 3 of the volume for 1908. The information which he desires is given so far as possible in the following table:—

Police, an exceptional augmentation having to be made in a relatively short space of time.