§ Mr. HOBHOUSEasked the Minister of Agriculture whether an inquiry has been made as to the desirability of extending the principle of the Evesham custom to all agricultural tenancies and methods of farming?
§ Mr. BUXTONI would refer the hon. Member to the reply which I gave on the 7th July last to the hon. Member for Denbigh (Mr. Ellis Davies). I have made inquiry, and have received no further evidence of the need for the amendment of the Agricultural Holdings Act in the direction suggested. In these circumstances I do not propose instituting an inquiry into the matter at the present time.