§ MR. J. MACVEAGHTo ask the hon. Member for South Somerset, as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture, whether he can state the total amount voted by Parliament to the Board from 1900 inclusive, and the rate per head of the population of Great Britain.
§ (Answered by Sir Edward Strachey.) The aggregate amount voted by Parliament for the service of the Board for the seven years from 1900–1901 to 1906–7, inclusive, was £766,403, a sum which is equivalent to 4.9d. per head of the population as enumerated at the Census of 1901. But, as I stated in reply to my hon. friend the Member for the Droitwich Division on the 18th instant, there are other charges both on the Exchequer and the Local Taxation Account which should be taken into consideration in estimating the total expenditure incurred by the Board for the benefit of the agricultural and fishery industries.