§ Mr. ROYCEasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport whether he is aware that the two counties of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire have as many acres of potatoes as the whole of 1524W Scotland, and that many of these potatoes cannot be marketed owing to the excessive railway rates which, in many instances, exceed the price per ton paid to the growers: and whether he can give the reason why potato rates from Scotland are being reduced by 20 per cent, to 40 per cent, from the 1st proximo, whilst all reductions have been refused to English growers?
§ Lieut.-Colonel ASHLEYI would refer to the reply (a copy of which I am sending to the hon. Member) which I gave yesterday to a similar question asked by the hon. Member for Stone (Mr. Lamb). I will inform the hon. Member of the result of the Department's communication to the railway companies.