§ MR. WEIR (Ross and Cromarty)To ask the Secretary for Scotland if he will state the number of years' purchase paid by the Congested Districts Board for the various estates which they have acquired, and the date of each such purchase, indicating the area of each estate and the entire amount paid for it.
(Answered by Mr. Sinclair.) Except in the case of Glendale, the estates were bought after negotiation and the lowest possible price was paid. The figure given was not, therefore, a precise calculation of so many years purchase. For information on the other points alluded to by the hon. Member, I must refer him to page 9 of the Congested Districts Board Report for 1905–6.