Sir J. D. REESasked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, as Chairman of the Central Control Board (Liquor Traffic), whether he can give the number of convictions for drunkenness in the scheduled areas of England and Wales during the past quarter of the current year; and the decrease on the figures for the corresponding quarter of 1920?
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§ Sir J. BAIRDThe returns of the Central Control Board are compiled weekly. The most accurate information therefore which I can give my hon. Friend is contained in the returns for the first complete 13 weeks of the year. They are as follow:
1920 23,993 1921 19,854 Decrease in 1921 as compared with 1920, 4,139.