§ MR. JESSE COLLINGSI beg to ask the hon. Member for South Somerset, 971 as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture, whether the salaries and expenses of any officers appointed by a county council for the purposes of establishing small holdings, and any salaries and expenses connected with the management and supervisions of small holdings after they are established, will be recouped by putting additional rent on the land occupied by the small holders.
§ SIR EDWARD STRACHEYThe Small Holdings Act, 1892, requires councils to fix the rents at such reasonable amounts as will in their opinion guard them against loss. The Board have no power to decide what expenses must be taken into consideration by a council in carrying out this provision.
§ MR. JESSE COLLINGSIs the meaning of that that the expenses are placed on the rents of the small holdings?
§ SIR EDWARD STRACHEYThe meaning is that no loss shall fall on the county rate.