HC Deb 17 February 1930 vol 235 c921
68. Mr. EDE

asked the Minister of Agriculture how many prosecutions were authorised in 1927, 1928 and 1929 in respect of injurious weeds?

Mr. N. BUXTON

The numbers of cases in which authority to institute prosecutions for failure to destroy injurious weeds was given by the Ministry under the Corn Production Acts (Repeal) Act, 1921, in 1927, 1928 and 1929, were 10, 16 and 13, respectively.