Mr George Bowyer: No, Sir.
Mr George Bowyer: I think none.
Mr George Bowyer: I have been asked to reply. The answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. The Furunculosis Committee has been consulted on the subject, and as soon as their considered reply has been received my right hon. Friend will communicate with my hon and gallant Friend. It is, however, improbable that the results of any experiments would be available this summer.
Mr George Bowyer: My right hon. Friend fully agrees that it is desirable that information on this subject should be available, and he is glad of the opportunity of drawing attention to the fact that particulars with regard to horses ex-ported from this country and the steps taken to ensure that they are fit to travel and to work without suffering, as required by existing legislation, are published annually and...
Mr George Bowyer: I think I have answered the question on the Paper.
Mr George Bowyer: No, Sir; my right hon. Friend is not yet in a position to announce the personnel of the proposed Royal Commission on tithe rentcharge.
Mr George Bowyer: I cannot, but it will be very shortly.
Mr George Bowyer: I cannot say that.
Mr George Bowyer: The terms of reference of the proposed Royal Commission, which were announced in the reply given to the hon. Member for Carmarthen (Mr. R. T. Evans) on the 13th June, are drawn in a form which will allow of the widest possible inquiry into the subject of tithe rentcharge, and the Royal Commission with whom it will rest to interpret them, will no doubt be prepared to consider all relevant matters.
Mr George Bowyer: National Mark schemes are already in operation for fresh green peas and for fresh-picked peas produced and canned in England and Wales. Schemes for peas marketed in other forms have been under consideration, and, if my right hon. Friend were assured that they would receive the support of a substantial part of the industries concerned, he would be happy to make the necessary regulations. So...
Mr George Bowyer: My right hon. Friend is aware of the difficulties to which my hon. Friend refers. A small increase has been made in this year's Estimates for the provision of some additional staff for the revision of Ordnance Survey plans and my right hon. Friend will certainly bear in mind the desirability of speeding up revision as financial circumstances permit.
Mr George Bowyer: I have been asked to reply. Cases involving measures so unusual as a reduction of ground rents would come within the scope of the general rule affecting all Government Departments under which specific Treasury authority is required for financial arrangements of a novel character.
Mr George Bowyer: I have been asked to reply. As indicated in the answer given by my right hon. Friend on Monday last to a question by my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Hertford (Sir M. Sueter), no area was taken in from Regent's Park for the purposes of Bedford College.
Mr George Bowyer: I have been asked to reply. My right hon. Friend would refer my hon. and gallant Friend to the reply which he gave on Tuesday to my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Maldon (Colonel Ruggles-Brise), of which he is sending him a copy.
Mr George Bowyer: My right hon. Friend has seen the statement referred to. Any complaint which may be made to him under Section 9 of the Agricultural Marketing Act, 1931, on the subject of milk prices will, of course, be considered most carefully, but it is impossible to state in advance what action my right hon. Friend may find it proper to take.
Mr George Bowyer: I have been asked to reply. My right hon. Friend was not aware of the circumstances mentioned in the first part of my right hon. Friend's question, but as regards the last part, it would clearly not be proper for him to attempt to put pressure on the committee.
Mr George Bowyer: I have been asked to reply. The minimum quantities referred to do not apply except in the event of the supply of imported butter being regulated, which is not at present the case. Imports of butter in 1933 from Sweden and Denmark exceeded the minimum quantities provided for in the trade agreements with those countries by 41,777 cwts. and 219,119 cwts. respectively. With regard to the...
Mr George Bowyer: Yes, Sir, I am aware of that fact.
Mr George Bowyer: I have been asked to reply. My right hon. Friend is satisfied that the absence of any large sale of herring to Russia since the conclusion of the agreement is largely due to the fact that the stocks of herring in this country are virtually exhausted. He is afraid that the suggestion put forward by my hon. Friend is, in any case, not one which the Government could entertain.
Mr George Bowyer: I have been asked to reply. The total acreages under sugar-beet returned by occupiers of agricultural holdings exceeding an acre in Norfolk in the last three years were as follows: 1933–99,834 acres; 1932–66,135 acres; 1931–41,980 acres.
