35. Mr. DUNDAS WHITEasked the Secretary for Scotland, with regard to the expenditure of £10,832 incurred on and connected with the establishment of eleven small holdings on the Middlebank estate, in Perthshire, of which, approximately, half will be repayable by a loan annuity, whether any provision has been made for the repayment of the other half or any part of it, and how much is regarded as outlay which will not be repaid; and if he will state what is the aggregate of the purchase money paid by these eleven small landholders to the owner of the estate for the purchase of their holdings?
§ Mr. MUNROThe answer to the first part of the question is in the negative. The irrecoverable expenditure incurred by the Board of Agriculture for Scotland amounts to £5,214. The Board were not parties to the sale of these holdings, but I understand that the purchase money aggregated to about £5,750.