§ Mr. Colvinasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will publish in the Official Report a 320W table showing the number of on and off-licences in England and Wales broken down by such categories as his records permit;
(2) if he will list in respect of each bench of licensing magistrates the number of applications granted for occasional permissions in respect of the last year for which figures are available.
§ Mr. WaddingtonInformation on the total number of on and off-licensed premises at 30 June 1986 is published in tables 1 and 2 of "Liquor Licensing Statistics, England and Wales, July 1985-June 1986" (Home Office Statistical Bulletin, 37/86). Corresponding figures for each bench of licensing magistrates and figures for occasional permissions granted in the period July 1985-June 1986 are given in the associated supplementary tables. Both publications are in the Library. The only other reliable information available relates to the number of garages-petrol stations with off-licences, 212 of which were recorded at 30 June 1986.