§ Major LLOYD-GREAMEasked the Home Secretary whether, when a spirit licence has been granted to a person who has not had a licence prior to 1917, the licensee can obtain a permit to purchase spirits; and, if so, whether he will authorise the grant of such a permit to Frederick Heathcote, of the Dutch Cafe, 12, North End Road, Golders Green, N.W., who was granted a spirit licence by the Wealdstone justices in February, 1919?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINThe permit referred to in the question is presumably the authority which is required under the 1179W Food Controller's Order, No. 270 of 1917, for obtaining spirits from bond on payment of duty. A condition of obtaining such an authority is that the applicant is a person to whom spirits were delivered from bond in the year 1916, and unless a licensee who had no licence prior to 1917 is in the position of such a person he can not obtain an authority. But he is at liberty to obtain spirits from any dealer who may be willing to supply him from his duty-paid stock.