§ Major LANE-FOXasked the President of the Board of Agriculture if he will state on what basis agricultural workers, who are now paying less than an economic rent for the cottages that they occupy, are to be charged for rent in reckoning the wages to be paid them under the awards of the Wages Board; and whether it is intended that in future the full economic rent should be allowed for in reckoning the total wages paid?
§ Mr. PROTHEROThe Agricultural Wages Board have just given notice of a proposal to make an Order defining the value at which the occupation of a cottage held by a worker from his employer maybe reckoned as part payment of wages. I should be glad therefore if my hon. and gallant Friend would await the issue of the Order for an answer to the first part of his question. I may add that the Wages Board do not in the proposed Order take the economic rent as the value for this purpose.