§ 19. Mr. TURTONasked the Minister of Munitions the grounds upon which the Munitions Department have, without notice and without any preliminary negotiation, entered upon the experimental farm of the Yorkshire Council for Agricultural Education at Garforth; whether some 70 acres, including the plots where the chief seed and other experiments are conducted, are already staked out; and whether a more suitable site for a shell-filling factory can be found in the neighbourhood?
§ Mr. LLOYD GEORGEIt was at one time under consideration to use a portion of the land referred to in the question for the purposes of a filling factory, but I am glad to say that arrangements have now been made which render it unnecessary for the Ministry of Munitions to take possession of the land.