§ 56. Mr. HASLAMasked the Minister of Agriculture if he will be able to make any further statement before the House separates for the summer recess as to the Government policy in aid of cereal cultivation?
§ Dr. ADDISONI would refer the hon. Member to the reply given by the Prime Minister to-day to a question put by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Woolwich, West (Sir K. Wood).
§ Mr. HASLAMIs not the right hon. Gentleman aware that the Prime Minister's answer only referred to one particular policy, namely, the quota; and are we to understand that the Government have no other policy for cereals?
§ Mr. W. B. TAYLOR rose——
§ Mr. SPEAKERThe question of supplementary questions is being abused.
§ Mr. BUTLEROn a point of Order. Is it right, on the question of cereal cultivation, which affects the workpeople in our arable districts more than any other, that supplementaires should be curtailed?
§ Mr. TAYLORMay I ask why I was ruled out?
§ Mr. SPEAKERThe hon. Member did not rise to put a point of Order, but to put a supplementary question, and I thought that we had had enough of them.
§ Mr. TAYLORWith great respect, I have hardly asked a supplementary question this Session. The gravity of the agricultural situation, and the entire absence of legislation, render——
§ Mr. SPEAKERThe hon. Member has been rather unfortunate in his choice of the time to ask his only supplementary question.