asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether any financial provision is to be made this Session to compensate agriculturists and traders for ascertained loss sustained by them owing to Departmental restrictions on the movement of cattle, sheep, and pigs in 1912, in cases in which there was neither disease nor danger of it, and the rstrictions were found to be a Departmental mistake?

I cannot usefully add anything to the replies made by my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries to the hon. Member on the 7th August last.

Does the Chancellor propose to introduce legislation this Session?

That is a question that ought to be addressed to my right hon. Friend. It is primarily a matter for his Department and not mine.