§ MR. C. B. HARMSWORTH (Worcestershire, Droitwich)To ask the hon. Member for South Somerset, as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture, whether the sum of £137,840 constitutes the total estimated State expenditure for the financial year 1907–8 in respect of the industries of agriculture and fisheries.
§ (Answered by Sir Edward Strachey.) The estimated expenditure of the Board is as stated. It does not, of course, include any drafts which it may be necessary to make on the Local Taxation Accounts in pursuance of Section 18 (2) of The Diseases of Animals Act, 1894, and there are charges on the Votes for Scientific Investigation, etc. (Class 4,Vote 6) and for Temporary Commissions (Class 7, Vote 1) which must also be taken into account.