§ SIR WALTER FOSTER (Derbyshire, Ilkeston)To ask the hon. Member for 1385 South Somerset, as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture, whether 153 applications for 2,284 acres have been sent in to the county council of Derbyshire under the Small Holdings and Allotments Act; why no information is forthcoming as to the steps taken to meet these applications; and whether the Board of Agriculture can do anything to assist the county council to satisfy the applicants.
(Answered by Sir Edward Strachey.) The county council have not quite completed their inquiries into the applications received, but so far as they have gone it appears that the majority of the applicants are suitable and the county council are endeavouring to obtain land. One of our inspectors has recently conferred with the council, and we hope to receive several schemes in the near future.