§ 16 and 17. Mr. ARCHDALEasked the Minister of National Service (1) whether, when Mr. Perry, manager of the Ford Motor Company in England, was purchasing Ewell Place, a scheme was put forward for cultivating the land and utilising existing buildings for food production and permission given to use skilled labour for that purpose; what progress has been made in that respect up to the present; (2) whether at Ewell Place, the property of Mr. Perry, manager of the Ford Motor Works, between 2nd February and 9th March, 1918, five skilled gardeners and a boy were employed in laying out herbaceous borders and other decorative gardening, and about thirty men from the works at Hammersmith driven over in motor lorries daily for the same purpose; and whether that is held to be war work?
§ Mr. BECKI have no information on the matter referred to by my hon. Friend, but I am having inquiries made and the result will be communicated to him.