§ Lieut.-Colonel Thornton-Kemsleyasked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will state by counties the extra acreage in Scotland which is to be ploughed up in 1943–44?
Mr. JohnstonThe task assigned to agricultural executive committees in Scotland in respect of increased tillage in876W 1943–44 is to endeavour to obtain an extra 71,500 acres over 1942–43. The distribution of this acreage among the counties is as follows:
Acres. Aberdeen 6,500 Angus 3,000 Argyll 2,250 Ayr 6,500 Banff 3,000 Berwick 7,000 Bute (including Arran) — Caithness 2,000 Dumfries 4,000 Dunbarton and Renfrew 1,000 East Lothian 1,500 Fife and Kinross 2,500 Inverness 1,500 Kincardine 2,000 Kirkcudbright 3,000 Lanark 4,000 Midlothian 2,000 Moray 1,000 Nairn 500 Orkney 1,500 Peebles 500 Selkirk 250 Perth 5,500 Ross and Cromarty 2,000 Roxburgh 5,000 Stirling and Clackmannan 2,000 Sutherland — West Lothian 1,000 Wigtown 500 Zetland — 71,500