§ Mr. WEIRasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that Sir John Ramsden, the owner of the Bray Roy estate, extending to 11,000 acres, in the Lochaber district of Inverness-shire, has recently cleared the farms of Glenturet, Lochroy, and Annat of the stock of 4,000 sheep, with the object of converting these farms into a deer forest; and whether, in view of the fact that this extension of the deer forest area deprives the country of food supplies and also closes land which might be occupied with profit by crofters, he will discourage such deer forest extensions by imposing a special tax on deer forests?
§ Mr. HOBHOUSEMy right hon. Friend has not had his attention called to the matter, but in any case he could not make any statement as to the financial proposals of His Majesty's Government for the coming year in anticipation of his Budget speech.