§ Wing-Commander Jamesasked the right hon. and gallant Member for Rye, as representing the Forestry Commissioners, whether the Commission have been approached by the Oxfordshire County Council with a view to their taking over for tree-planting those strips of land, aggregating scores of acres, now derelict and agriculturally useless, lying between the intersections of the former twisting road and the new straight road in course of completion between Oxford and Bicester?
§ Sir G. CourthopeThe answer is in the negative.
Mr. Maclean asked the right hon. and gallant Member for Rye as representing the Forestry Commissioners, to what use the 247,521 acres of unplantable land purchased by the Forestry Commission, will be put?
§ Sir G. CourthopeAny of the 247,521 acres of unplantable land suitable for grazing are let or used for that purpose; 35,000 acres in Argyllshire are used as a national forest park; the rest of the land is useless owing to exposure, unsuitable soil or otherwise adverse conditions.