HC Deb 12 July 1927 vol 208 c1932
20. Mr. STEPHEN

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland the amount of money available during the current year for the constitution of small holdings in Scotland and the corresponding amount for last year?

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL for SCOTLAND

The provision on the Estimate of the Board of Agriculture for Scotland for the present financial year for Grantsin-Aid of the Land Settlement purposes of the Small Landholders Acts, the Small Holding Colonies Acts and the Land Settlement (Scotland) Act, 1919, is £175,000. A similar sum was provided for the year 1926.

Mr. STEPHEN

How much was spent last year?

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL for SCOTLAND

I should require notice of that question.