SIR WALTER FOSTER (Derbyshire, Ilkeston)I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board if he will state the number of Orders for the compulsory hire of land for allotments deposited with the Local Government Board by county councils during the last year, and whether there were any that the Local Government Board did not confirm.
MR. LONGSix Orders of the kind referred to in the question were deposited with the Local Government Board during the year ended March last. Of these throw have been confirmed by the Board; 711 in one case the application has been withdrawn, and the two remaining cases have not yet been settled.