§ Rear-Admiral Beamishasked the Minister of Agriculture if he will publish a statement concerning the grants paid to and the achievements and prospects of the Domestic Poultry Keepers and small Pig-Keepers, the Village Produce and Allotments Associations, and if he will, after some inquiry, consider uniting them in one organisation so as to avoid overlapping and the confusion due to the present system of separate and independent councils.
Mr. HudsonI will arrange for the publication of a statement giving particulars of the cost to the Exchequer and of the achievements of the organisations to which my hon. and gallant Friend refers. With regard to the second part of the Question, there were good reasons for setting up separate organisations, and, so far as I am aware, the present system has not led to overlapping and confusion; nor have I any information which would lead me to suppose that the continuance of separate organisations is not still desirable.