§ Commander O. LOCKER-LAMPSONasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture whether applications for land by ex-soldiers in Huntingdonshire to their county council made prior to 1st July will be satisfied regardless of the undue expenditure of other county councils and the consequent reduction of the money available for land purchase generally; and whether local authorities are right in assuming that, in spite of the recent meeting of authorities at the Ministry of Agriculture, at which a policy of curtailment of expenditure was inaugurated, all applications prior to the meeting will be met?
Sir A. BOSCAWENApplications for land in the County of Hunts by ox-service men, approved before the 1st July, can be met if the county council will make full use of its powers for securing land in the manner recommended by the Ministry in its recent circular. Subject also to this proviso, although it is impossible to give any definite assurance on the point, the Ministry anticipates that in the case of most counties the whole of the outstanding demands of approved ex-service men can be met.