Board of Agriculture Vote.

HC Deb 20 May 1908 vol 189 cc305-6

MR. LANE-FOX (Yorkshire, W.R., Barkston Ash)

I beg to ask the Prime Minister when the Vote for the Board of Agriculture will be taken.

MR. ASQUITH

The Vote will be taken on 10th June.

MR. LANE-FOX

Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that that is immediately after the holidays, and it will be most inconvenient for the agricultural Members to be back? The same course was adopted last year. There is a strong agricultural element who wish to discuss several matters.

MR. ASQUITH

What?

MR. LANE-FOX

The Swine Fever Regulation, for instance.

MR. ASQUITH

I see no reason for altering the date. It is inconvenient for everybody, but not more so for the agricultural Members than others.

MR. AKERS-DOUGLAS (Kent, St. Augustine's)

The agricultural Members should not suffer the same inconvenience two years running.