§ Mr. Colvinasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will assess the relationship between drink-related offences and the number of public houses in a particular locality.
§ Mr. MellorWe have no plans to do so. It is doubtful whether an assessment of the relationship between the 452W number of drink-related offences and the availability of alcohol in particular localities would be useful if the investigation was limited to the number of public houses and took no account of the total number of licensed premises.