§ MR. WEIRI beg to ask the Lord Advocate if he will state the number of new holdings which have been formed in the Highland crofting counties through the agency of the Congested Districts Board for Scotland during the year under review in the recently issued Report.
§ THE LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. A. GRAHAM MURRAY,) ButeshireIt is not easy yet to give more exact figures than those in the Report, as, in several cases, the actual sub-division and allocation of the holdings has not yet been carried out, and the estimated number of the holdings may be less or more than the actual sub-division. The total of the estimate is 216 holdings, including the 51 potato plots in Vatersay.
§ MR. WEIRI beg to ask the Lord Advocate, in view of the fact that the recently issued Report of the Congested Districts Board for Scotland shows that early last year the Board were in negotiation for an estate which afforded facilities both for the enlargement of new holdings, and for the formation of new holdings for migrants from congested districts will he state the name of the estate referred to, and the cause of the negotiations falling through.
§ MR. A. GRAHAM MURRAYThe negotiations were of a confidential nature, and it is therefore not possible to give the hon. Member the information which he desires.
§ MR. A. GRAHAM MURRAYdeclined to give the information.