§ 30. Major Wiseasked the Minister of Health if he will give instructions to county and local authorities that when allotments are required for the erection of houses of any description. arrangements should be made by the authorities concerned, in the interests of food production, for alternative land to be acquired or made available for allotment purposes.
§ Mr. BevanThe interests of food production are safeguarded not only by statutory limitation on the acquisition of allotment land for housing but also by the arrangement under which the concurrence of my right hon. Friend the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries has to be obtained in the acquisition of housing sites on agricultural land. Further, local authorities have been asked to give most careful consideration to the interests of cultivators of temporary allotments on housing sites.