Mr George Bowyer: I have been asked to reply. The information at the Ministry's disposal is to the effect that any agreement entered into by the large meat importing firms is aimed at preventing violent fluctuations in the supplies of meat to this country rather than at curtailing supplies generally. Mr. right hon. Friend is aware of the increase in the price of chilled meat at Smithfield at the present time...
Mr George Bowyer: I will convey those questions to my right hon. Friend, but I think they would take too long to answer at Question Time.
Mr George Bowyer: An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease was confirmed yesterday at Stockton-in-the-Forest, near York. The last previous outbreak occurred on the 20th May, and the country was entirely free from restrictions on account of foot-and-mouth disease from the 18th June to the 11th July.
Mr George Bowyer: I will make inquiries.
Mr George Bowyer: I must have notice of that question.
Mr George Bowyer: No, Sir, but I will have inquiries made and let my hon. and learned Friend know.
Mr George Bowyer: No, I believe not.
Mr George Bowyer: The applications of John McCuish and John McLeod for small holdings were made on 29th November, 1918, and 5th October, 1925, respectively. Miss Hannah Macleay has not lodged any formal application with the Board of Agriculture for Scotland but the proprietor, when agreeing to subdivide the farm, made it a condition that Miss Macleay should be given one of the holdings to be formed.
Mr George Bowyer: I cannot say. I have answered all the questions asked in the original question.
Mr George Bowyer: My right hon. Friend is unable to accept the assumption on which the question is based, but if, when the appeal referred to is decided, it appears that any instructions by him are necessary, the matter will, of course, have his attention.
Mr George Bowyer: I think there is a mistake, because my right hon. Friend assures me there has been no decision by the Lord Justice Clerk, and, further, that he has nothing to add to the answer he gave on 10th July.
Mr George Bowyer: I assume the hon. Member is referring to the process described in a Report on the Desiccation of Sugar Beet published by the Stationery Office in 1927 and carried on at the Eynsham Factory, which began manufacturing sugar on a commercial scale in May, 1928. Up to date subsidy has been paid on 38 tons of sugar and 80 tons of molasses. The factory has been working for too short a period on a...
Mr George Bowyer: I have been asked to reply. The Committee have presented their Report on this subject, and it is now in the hands of the printer. It will be published at an early date.
Mr George Bowyer: I have been asked to reply. I would refer my hon. Friend to the reply given on the 26th of April last to the hon. Member for Melton (Mr. Everard), a copy of which will be sent to him. The position has not altered since that date.
Mr George Bowyer: So far as the Tate Gallery is concerned, I would refer the hon. Member to the answer given to the hon. Member for the Devonport Division (Mr. Hore-Belisha) on 28th February last. The statements there made apply also to the National Gallery. Communications between those Galleries and provincial Galleries are constant, and the latter can always obtain a list of pictures available for loan. The...
Mr George Bowyer: I have been asked to reply. The number of landing grounds and air ports in the British Empire is 845, of which 237 are in Great Britain. I should add that information is not available as to the principles on which places are classified in the United States as air ports or landing stations, the latter especially being a/ very elastic term, and it is, therefore, not possible to say whether the...
Mr George Bowyer: I have been asked to reply. The answer is in the negative.
Mr George Bowyer: I can tell the hon. Member that it is not by any lack of courtesy that my hon. and gallant Friend is not here to-night but owing to this Motion coming on at an unexpected time, and owing to his having a public engagement elsewhere. He has asked me to take charge of this and I have been at pains to make myself acquainted with the contents of those Orders. I can assure hon. Members that they...
Mr George Bowyer: I think the answer is twofold. First I can imagine that these Orders are taken as and when they become available from the other place, and by a process of time; and, secondly, it is important they should be taken from night. to night, because if they are postponed on any one night they might make to-morrow's ration, as it were, overloaded.
Mr George Bowyer: 60. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he is aware that during 1920–21 the Ministry of Pensions and the appeal tribunals rejected all claims and appeals from ex-service men in connection with tuberculosis where the disease was not diagnosed within a year of demobilisation or discharge; that subsequently claims and appeals have been allowed in eases where the diagnosis was made three...
