§ Mr. BUXTONasked the Minister of Agriculture the total amount of grants made to drainage authorities by the present Government under schemes not in operation under previous Governments?
Mr. GUINNESSI assume that the right hon. Gentleman is referring to drainage programmes and not to individual drainage schemes. On this assumption the answer is that, apart from land drainage and water supply schemes for the relief of unemployment, which were continued in the winters of 1924–25 and 1925–26, a new programme of State-aided land drainage schemes was initiated in April, 1926, under which grants amounting to, approximately, £390,000 have so far been allocated.