§ Mr. REMNANTasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications by the quarter sessions of a county for his consent to the borrowing on the security of the compensation fund of any sums required for the purpose of paying compensation under the Licensing Act, 3904, he has refused since 1st January, 1906; and whether he will now give his favourable consideration to any such applications from quarter sessions?
§ Mr. GLADSTONEThe answer to the first part of the question is that I have not112W refused any applications from county quarter sessions; and the answer to the second part is that I am ready, as I have always been, to take all the circumstances of any such application into consideration.