§ Sir W. Smithersasked the Minister of Agriculture if he will give a short summary of the annual profit and loss account of the Denbighshire Agricultural Executive Committee since it was formed; how many complaints the Denbighshire Agricultural Executive Committee have received against their insistence on growing specified crops; and how many farmers they have dispossessed.
§ Mr. T. WilliamsThe information asked for in the first part of the Question is not available because in view of the manpower situation, the only accounts prepared by county war agricultural executive committees generally during the war years were on a receipts and payments basis. Similarly as regards the second part, it would hardly have been sensible to compile records of everything that might have been called a complaint. As regards the third part, the Denbighshire Committee has taken possession of land in 40 instances covering 4,300 acres and of these, 19 cases covering some 1,800 acres involved the dispossession of farmers. In addition, the Committee has terminated 28 tenancies leaving relettings in the hands of the landlords concerned.