Children's Certificates (Public Houses)

HC Deb 05 March 1996 vol 273 cc199-200W

Mr. Steen

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many public houses have been issued with children's certificates. [18634]

Mr. Kirkhope

The latest available statistics are that, as at 30 June 1995, 1,669 children's certificates had been granted in respect of licensed premises in England and Wales. Statistics on the type of licensed premises concerned are not collected, but most are likely to be public houses.