HC Deb 02 June 1908 vol 189 cc1718-9
MR. WEIR

I beg to ask the Secretary for Scotland, in view of the promise set forth in the Scottish Office letter of 15th February, 1904, to the Lewis local committee, will he state whether the Congested Districts Board have yet been able to arrange a scheme under which Lewis cottars may voluntarily migrate to the mainland.

MR. SINCLAIR

The Congested Districts Board is in correspondence with the Landward Committee of the Stornoway Parish Council in order to ascertain whether any and, if so, what Lewis cottars are able and desirous to migrate to the mainland. When that information is forthcoming, the matter will be further considered.

MR. WEIR

And while the matter is under consideration these people are starving.