HC Deb 20 November 1952 vol 507 c190W
Mr. Erroll

asked the Minister of Agriculture why in this year he is spending £313,000 on the item Supplementary Labour Scheme and Miscellaneous.

Sir T. Dugdale

£228,000 is the estimated gross cost to the Department of providing essential supplementary labour, mainly at volunteer agricultural camps, for this year's harvest, and particularly for the potato harvest. £65,000 is for compensation in respect of playing fields, gold-courses and other land ploughed up under directions during the war, and £20,000 for various minor services.