§ Mr. BOTTOMLEYasked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been called to a recent statement of Mr. Paul Taylor, the Marylebone magistrate to the effect that the working of the clause in the Children Act relating to admission to licensed premises was having the effect of extending the public-house bar to the public footway, and that it was questionable whether the second state of things was not worse than the first in this respect? and whether he will cause inquiry to be made into the working of the Act?
§ Mr. HERBERT SAMUELThe Secretary of State has seen a newspaper paragraph to this effect, and he has called for a full report upon the working of this provision of the Act in London.