§ MR. BELL (Derby)To ask the hon. Member for South Somerset, as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture, if he can state how many sappers have been drafted from the Royal Engineers into the Ordnance Survey, and how many civilians on the Ordnance Survey are now being discharged in consequence; whether he will explain why the Ordnance Survey division in Derby is being broken up, and how many men are being discharged in consequence; and whether he can give the ages and service of such men.
(Answered by Sir Edward Strachey.) The number of sappers drafted into the survey companies during the last twelve 1084 the importation of Chinese labour. The Secretary of State is unable to state what proportion of the real estate is in British hands.