Commander LOCKER - LAMPSONasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture whether he can give figures showing the number of freeholders and Government and county council tenants in England and Wales in 1920 as compared with 1914?
Sir A. BOSCAWENComplete figures for 1920 are not yet available, but the number of Government and council tenants under the Small Holdings Acts at the present time is 23,928 as compared with 14,331 at the 31st December, 1914. The number of persons who had purchased their holdings from councils at 31st December, 1919, was 68 as compared, with 50 at the end of 1914.