§ MR. T. F. RICHARDS (Wolverhampton, W.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he is prepared to take steps whereby the senior abstractors of the Statistical Department of His Majesty's Customs may be able to count the whole of their unestablished service in qualifying for pensions; what is the nature of the replies given by his predecessors; and when were those replies given.
§ MR. HOBHOUSEThe answer is in the negative. The previous replies to which I referred the hon. Member in my former Answer were as follows:—
§ of the Board of Agriculture, whether he can state how much of the £100,000 voted by Parliament for facilitating the working of the Small Holdings Act has been expended up to date.
§ THE TREASURER OF THE HOUSEHOLD (Sir EDWARD STRACHEY, Somersetshire, S.)None of it has as yet been 1793 actually spent, but heavy calls are likely to be made on it shortly.