Mr. C. WILSONasked the Home Secretary the number of fully-licensed houses, beerhouses, and off-licences in the city of Chichester; what is the proportion per head of the population in Chichester and in the rest of England; how many houses of each kind have at any time been extinguished in Chichester by compensation; and how many new houses have been built or old houses enlarged during the same period?
Mr. HENDERSONAll the information available on this subject is to be found in the annual volumes of licensing statistics. The figures asked for—except that I have no information as to whether any old houses have been enlarged—are as follows: On 1st. January, 1923, there82W were 46 fully-licensed houses, 12 beer-houses (on), and 10 off-licences in existence in the city of Chichester giving a proportion per 10,000 of population of 5478[...]. In the rest of England and Wales there were 103,005 licences, giving a proportion of 2733 per 10,000 population. From the commencement of the Licensing Act, 1904, to the end of 1923, four publicans' licences and live beerhouse licences have been extinguished on payment of compensation. It does not appear that any new licensed premises have been built in this period.