Major WOODasked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether, seeing that 222W under the constitution of the Board of Agriculture for Scotland one member of the board was charged with the special duty of initiating and directing smallholding settlement schemes, how this duty is carried out since, under the Reorganisation of Offices (Scotland) Act, 1928, the powers and duties of the board were transferred to the Department of Agriculture?
Mr. W. ADAMSONIf the hon. and gallant Member refers to the arrangement instructed by Sub-section (6) of Section 4 of the Small Landholders (Scotland) Act, 1911, I would remind him that this Sub-section, together with relative portions of the 1911 Act, were repealed by Section 32 of the Land Settlement (Scotland) Act, 1919. Since 1st January, 1929, the division of the Department dealing with land settlement has been in charge of an Assistant-Secretary, subject to the administrative control of the Secretary of the Department and the Secretary of State.