§ Captain WRIGHTasked the President of the Board of Agriculture whether he is aware that an outgoing tenant, who has, under an Order issued by a war agricultural committee in pursuance of the Defence of the Realm Regulations, ploughed up, cultivated, and sown grass lands in excess of what is allowed to him by the covenants in his lease, or the custom of the county, or in respect of which under the grass age custom payments would have been due to him from the incoming tenant, has no remedy by way of a claim on tenant-right valuation against the incoming tenant or the owner by way of reimbursement of the cost of such ploughing, cultivation, and sowing, from which he can derive no benefit for the loss of eat age, for the loss of payments or grassage which would but for such ploughage have been due to him, and that his only remedy is to make a claim before the Losses Commission for the recovery of such expenses and losses; and if, in view of the above and the unsuitability of the Losses Commission to decide such claims, he will by a short Bill provide that they be decided by the tribunals set up by the Corn Production Act, 1917?
§ Mr. PROTHEROI am aware that in some cases a tenant who breaks up pasture in compliance with a notice under the Defence of the Realm Regulations and quits his holding will not be entitled to recover from his landlord or the incoming tenant full compensation for his expenditure and labour, but I am not prepared to say that the position of the tenant is in all cases that suggested in the question or that the Losses Commission does not provide an adequate remedy for any loss that he may incur by compliance with the notice.