§ 17. Mr. MacKENZIE LIVINGSTONEasked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will instruct the Board of Agriculture to include in the annual agricultural returns those areas over which game is shot or for which shooting rents are paid, comprised in grass lands, totalling 2,419,014 acres for 1925, and mountain and heath lands, totalling 9,643,996 acres for 1925, together with the shooting rents for those areas?
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for SCOTLAND (Sir John Gilmour)The Agricultural Returns Act, 1925, which now defines the scope of the annual agricultural returns does not empower the Board to require the occupiers of agricultural land to furnish particulars of the nature indicated in the question; nor would it have been practicable to provide for the collection of information of this character in the returns.