§ Mr. BECKERasked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will issue Regulations making it lawful to sell ice cream during the British Empire Exhibition between the hours of 9.30 p.m. and midnight?
Mr. DAVIESClosing hours for the sale of ice cream are fixed by the Shops (Early Closing) Acts, and I am advised that the Home Office has no power to vary them as suggested.
§ Mr. BECKERasked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department the number of summonses which have been issued during 1923 upon persons charged with selling tobacco between the hours of 8 o'clock p.m. and midnight?