HC Deb 17 July 1908 vol 192 c1227
MR. ESSEX (Gloucestershire, Cirencester)

To ask the hon. Member for South Somerset, as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture, whether, in the event of a county council putting into force the compulsory powers of the Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1907, the Board of Agriculture will bear the extra expenses entailed.

(Answered by Sir Edward Strachey.) Yes.