HC Deb 16 March 1961 vol 636 c1738

The following Question stood upon the Order Paper:

31. Sir JOHN MAITLAND

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will introduce legislation to amend the Agriculture Act, 1957, to ensure that grain reception pits and pre-holding bins, of a kind that a prudent landlord, having regard to their cost and all other circumstances, would make himself or pay compensation to a tenant for making, are eligible for a grant.

Sir J. Maitland

Since putting down this Question I have discovered that I have an interest in it, which I now formally wish to declare.

Mr. Vane

If pits and bins conform with the tests my hon. Friend describes they are already eligible. Many are ineligible because they are movable or form part of the grain handling equipment that a tenant would normally provide, as he does much other working equipment.