73. Mr. ALAN SYKESasked the President of the Board of Agriculture whether he has received a resolution from the Cheshire Agricultural Society urging him to consider the question of granting loans on easy terms to farmers who have suffered loss through foot-and-mouth disease and through loss of crops owing to floods and heavy continuous rains; and, if so, whether he intends taking any action in the matter, and, if so, what?
§ Mr. LEWISThe answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. With regard to the second part, my right hon. Friend regrets that he can add nothing to the answers which he has already given to questions on this subject.