HC Deb 04 December 1916 vol 88 c682W
Captain BATHURST

asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture what is the total area of land acquired under the Small Holdings Acts, 1907 and 1908; and what percentage does it represent of the total area occupied in holdings above I acre and not exceeding 50 acres?

Mr. ACLAND

Up to the 31st December, 1914, 195,499 acres had been acquired under the Acts. This is 4.6 per cent. of the total area held in small holdings.

Captain BATHURST

asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture what is the total number of individual applicants provided with small holdings by county councils since the passage of the Small Holdings Act, 1907, and how many of them have since vacated occupation of their holdings?

Mr. ACLAND

The total number of small holdings provided by county councils for individual applicants up to 31st December, 1914, was 12,634. No complete information is available- as to the number of tenants who have vacated their holdings, but, in the year 1914, 266 tenants vacated at their own request, often to take larger holdings, and eighty-eight tenants received notice to quit from the county councils.