§ 49. Mr. Wingfield Digbyasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many registered betting offices there are now; how this compares with three years ago; and what evidence has been submitted to him on the growth of illegal betting.
§ Mr. CallaghanOn 1st June, 1968—the latest date for which figures are available—there were 15,782 licensed betting offices; the figure on 1st June, 1966, was 15,741, and on 1st June, 1965, 15,638.
I have received no recent evidence of a growth of illegal betting other than a small number of representations about individual cases.