§ Mr. Foulkesasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give the number of liquor licences granted in each category for each district of Scotland for the past five years and the total number of each category of liquor licence for each district; and what this represents per thousand of population in each case.
§ Mr. AncramFollowing consultation with police and local authority interests the collection of licensing statistics was curtailed in 1980 and discontinued thereafter. The numbers of licences granted in each district in each year up to 1979 are shown in the annual Civil Judicial Statistics, Scotland, copies of which are available in the Library. The numbers of licences extant, and consequently the numbers per 1,000 of population, are not shown and could be ascertained only at disproportionate cost.