§ 98. Mr. Hannanasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state the number of shop premises in which illegal ready-money betting is known to have been transacted; how many police raids have taken place on such premises; and what has been the number of people arrested and the total of fines imposed in the past year at any convenient date.
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§ Mr. R. A. ButlerI regret that the information is not available for England and Wales as a whole. In the Metropolitan Police District in the year 1957, 228 search warrants were executed in respect of places of all kinds in which illegal ready-money betting was suspected of taking place contrary to the Betting Act, 1853. 625 persons were arrested. Fines and costs imposed on persons convicted amounted to a little over £7,700; two cases have yet to be disposed of.