§ MR. BILLSON (Staffordshire, N.W.)To ask the President of the Local Government Board how many appeals have been made to the Board by parish councils and district councils respectively under Section 9, Sub-section 4, of The Local Government Act, 1894; and if he can give the number of appeals granted and refused.
§ (Answered by Mr. John Burns.) There have been no appeals to the Board by district councils against refusals by county councils to make orders under the sub-section mentioned. There have been three cases in which parish councils have appealed. In one of them the appeal was not proceeded with, and in the remaining two the appeal was unsuccessful. In one of these two cases it appeared that it would not be practicable to secure the financial balance contemplated by Section 2 (2) of The Allotments Acts, 1887, and in the other the parish council succeeded, whilst the appeal was pending, in obtaining some land in lieu of part of that which they had proposed to acquire, whilst as to the rest their proposals would have involved a contravention of Section 10 (6) (c) of The Local Government Act, 1894.