§ Mr. ERSKINEasked the hon. Member for Cheltenham, as Chairman of the Kitchen and Refreshment Rooms Committee, whether, owing to the reduced cost of tea and milk, he can see his way to reduce the price of tea and bread and butter from the present charge of 7d. to a more reasonable figure; and whether, seeing that the charge for a glass of barley water is 6d., which represents a profit of 500 per cent., this charge can be reduced?
§ Sir J. AGG-GARDNERIn reply to the question of the hon. Member, may I be permitted to inform him that the allegations which it contains are inaccurate? The charge for barley water is twopence, not sixpence per glass. Our profits are not 500 per cent., indeed, they rarely exceed 30 per cent., while the price of tea and its accompaniments is arranged on the basis established at the principal clubs.