§ Mr. GEORGE ROBERTSasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture whether the Board is aware that the negotiations for acquiring land occupied by Mr. Rae, at Cheshunt, were blocked on the clerk to the council advising that the tenant would be entitled to compensation not only for tillage and severance, but for any loss he might sustain for future profits he might have made out of the land taken during the remainder of his tenancy, an amount computed at the rate of £5 per acre per annum; whether an exactly similar difficulty has arisen at Erith in the case of the compulsory acquisition by the urban district council of fifteen acres of land, part of Parsonage Farm; whether these claims will fall upon the prospective allotment holders, or whether the Board will, under the circumstances, provide the money out of the Small Holdings Account; and, if not, how do they propose to get over the difficulty?
§ Sir E. STRACHEYThe facts are as stated in the first part of the question. The Board have no power to pay claims of this kind out of the Small Holdings Account.