§ 62. Sir JOHN SPEARasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will consider the desirability of advancing to county councils loans of money which would be available to enable suitable and approved returned soldiers and sailors to stock small holdings they might wish to settle on?
§ Mr. PRATT (Lord of the Treasury)I have been asked by my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Agriculture to answer this question and to refer the hon. Member to the Report of the Committee on the Settlement of Soldiers and Sailors on the Land presided over by the hon. and gallant Member for North Bucks, Part I. (Command Paper 8182), which did not find itself able to recommend advances of capital to ex-service men for the stocking of small holdings. At present the Board do not propose to depart from this recommendation.