§ Mr. MALONEasked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies when the agricultural loans arranged by the British Military Palestine Administration were stopped, and for what reason; whether the minutes of the Haycroft Commission of Inquiry of 1921 are available; and, if so, whether the question of the continuation of the loans was discussed?
§ Dr. SHIELSThese loans were continued under the Civil Administration until 1923, when they were stopped on purely financial grounds. There is no record in the Colonial Office of the evidence given before the Haycroft Commission, and I am not, therefore, in a position to reply to the last part of the question.