HC Deb 16 March 1920 vol 126 c2010
41. Mr. N. MACLEAN

asked the Secretary for Scotland whether he has received a resolution from the Parliamentary Committee of the Scottish Trades Union Congress expressing its indignation at the-dismissal from employment of a large number of ex-service men and others in the Island of Lewis because other ox-servicemen in need of lands and houses have-occupied certain parts of farms alleged to be the property of Lord Loverhulme; and whether he will give an undertaking that the Island of Lewis shall be made-no exception in the administration of the Land Settlement and other Acts of Parliament passed for the purpose of settling ex-service men and others on the land, and that no further delay shall take place-in making the larger farms on the island available for small holdings and homes for such of the people of Lewis as desire, land?

Mr. MUNRO

The answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. I am at present in communication with Lord Leverhulme in regard to the position in the Lews, the difficulties of which I fully appreciate. I am endeavouring to find the solution which will be most in the interest of the community as a whole.