§ Mr. GINNELLasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture if he will state the area of common land enclosed and appropriated by private persons in each county in England in the nineteenth century, with the conditions to which the acquisition was subject; and whether those conditions have been or are being fulfilled?
§ Mr. ACLANDAll the available information as to the area of common land enclosed will be found in the Return presented to Parliament, No, 399 of 1914, of which I am sending the hon. Member a copy The documents showing the conditions in each case of enclosure prior to the1290W General Enclosure Act of 1845 are, with comparatively few exceptions, not in the Board's custody. An examination of all those in the Board's charge would involve a very large amount of labour which, with the present depleted staff, it would be impossible to undertake.