§ CAPTAIN SINCLAIR (Forfarshire)To ask the President of the Board of Agriculture in reference to the Return, No. 407, session 2 of 1895, of proceedings under the Small Holdings Act, 1892, and to the application of the Act in Scotland subsequent to that Return, if he will say what further counties, if any, have, under Section 5 of the Act, made inquiry, by the appointment of a committee or otherwise; what further amount of land, if any, has been acquired under Section 3 of the Act, and in what parish or parishes the same is situate; and what further number of small holdings has been provided, of what acreage these holdings are and under what terms, i.e., sale or letting, they have been provided.
(Answered by Mr. Hanbury.) We are not at present in possession of information later than 1895, as to the proceedings of local authorities under the Small Holdings Act, 1892, but I have promised the hon. Member for South Molton a full Return of the subject,† and that Return is now in course of preparation. It will include the information desired by the hon. Member with regard to Scotland.