HC Deb 18 May 1936 vol 312 cc848-9W
Mr. LENNOX-BOYD

asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury how many licences have been granted enabling wholesale wine and spirit merchants to trade as retailers in shops, during the last 12 months, without application to the magistrates?

Mr. W. S. MORRISON

The number of retailers' spirit and wine off-licences held in conjunction with dealers' licences, with out a Justices' Certificate, granted during the year ended 31st March, 1936, is as follows:—

Spirit and Wine … … 1,620
Spirit only … … 50
Wine only … … 267
1,937