§ Mr. CHARLES BATHURSTasked how many small holdings have been constituted by landowners since the passage of the Small Holdings Act, 1907, without the intervention of the county councils, on the occasion of farms falling vacant on their estates; and whether such holdings are included in the figures given in the recently issued Report of the Small Holdings Commissioners?
§ Sir E. STRACHEYThe Board have no means of obtaining the information required. The figures given in the annual report relate only to those cases in which applications made to a county council have been satisfied by private landowners through the intervention of the council.
§ Mr. C. BATHURSTDoes the hon. Baronet consider that the statistics relating to small holdings are reliable when they omit altogether a large number granted by private arrangement?