§ Colonel FABERasked the President of the Board of Agriculture whether the neglect to vote prisoner labour for Wood-walton Fen on the part of the Government Committee, as pressed for by the Hunts War Executive Committee and the Food Production Department, having resulted in considerable financial loss to the owners, the latter will be compensated to the extent of their outlay for the Government, four tractors having been employed to bring the land into cultivation?
§ Mr. PROTHEROThe supply of prisoners necessarily depends on the number captured by our Army. It is obvious that no claim for compensation can be admitted on the ground that prisoners have not been supplied for any particular scheme. At the present moment the Board have urgent demands for 5,000 prisoners for agricultural and drainage work, but there are none available.