§ Mr. WRIGHTasked the President of the Board of Agriculture whether, with reference to the recent purchase of the Eardisley (Herefordshire) estate by Mr. Haden Tebb, of 18, Bolton Street, Mayfair, W., an application, under the Increase of Rent, etc. (Amendment) Act, 1918, has been made by the purchaser for a certificate that the seventeen cottages, or any of them purchased by him, are required for the occupation of persons engaged or employed in agricultural work of urgent national importance; and has an application in respect of these cottages or any of them been granted?
§ Sir R. WINFREYThe answer to the first part of the question is in the negative; the second part, therefore, does not arise.