§ 11. Major Sir KEITH FRASERasked the Secretary of State for War if he will state the number of claims for compensa- 728 tion for use of premises by the Remount Departments which have not been settled, and are upwards of six months in arrear; and if he will investigate the fact that the Market Harborough Urban District Council have claims for dilapidations, compensation for use of premises (the market place), and for water supplied, which are long outstanding, and in respect of which no answers can be obtained from the military authorities at Bedford or from the Secretary of the War Office?
§ Mr. FORSTERThese claims are dealt with by the local military authorities, and I am informed that the only case of this kind of which the War Office has knowledge is the one at Market Harborough to which my hon. and gallant Friend refers. As regards the Market Harborough case, I am informed that the local military authorities have been in communication with the urban district council, but that up to the present it has not been possible to arrive at an agreement. I understand that the urban district council were communicated with again on the 3rd May, with a view to expediting a settlement of the questions at issue, and it is hoped that the case will now be disposed of very shortly.