§ 100. Sir D. Robertsonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if the large breeding stock of cattle and sheep on the Isle of Rhum will remain there after the Nature Conservancy take possession of the island.
§ Mr. MaclayThe position is that the present grazing tenant of Rhum has renounced his lease. I understand that the Nature Conservancy do not propose to make any fresh grazing arrangements for the present; but that it intends to review the matter in two or three years' time when the vegetation has been rested and re-established and its research programmes have been organised and developed.