To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (1) how many public houses have been opened in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) England in each of the last five years; (223878)

The requested data are not centrally held.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what estimate he has made of the number of closures of establishments in the public house sector in (a) 2000, (b) 2003 and (c) 2007. (223926)

There are no centrally held data for the total number of public house closures in the years 2000, 2003 and 2007. The Department's annual data collection on licences issued under the Licensing Act 2003 includes the number of premises licences which have been surrendered, revoked or have lapsed. However, those figures are not broken down by the type of licensed premises or licensable activity and do not include licences where the establishment has closed, but where the licence has not been surrendered. Prior to the 2003 Act coming into effect, liquor licensing data were collected triennially with the last collection covering the year to 30 June 2004.