§ Mr. EVERARDasked the Minister of Agriculture the amount contributed from the Local Taxation Account in connection with foot-and-mouth disease in the years 1923, 1924, 1925, and 1926, respectively?
Mr. GUINNESSThe amounts drawn from the Local Taxation Accounts (England and Scotland) in aid of the costs and expenses payable out of the Cattle Pleuro-Pneumonia Account in each of the undermentioned years were as follows:
£ 1923 833,978 1924 270,000 1925 225,000 1926 *(to date) 200,000 * Further calls (if any) on the Local Taxation Accounts during the few remaining days of the current financial year would not be for more than comparatively small amounts.