§ MR. DUCKHAMasked the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, If he could explain why the Privy Council do not adopt precautionary regulations for the removal of animals into England from Scotland and Ireland similar to those enforced by their orders for the removal of animals into Scotland and Ireland from England, seeing that foot and mouth disease is prevalent in those parts of the United Kingdom, and that the health of the herds and flocks of England is being seriously prejudiced by the continued introduction of the disease?
§ MR. DODSONSir, the Scotch Prohibitory Order was first passed at a time when there was no disease in Scotland, and it has been maintained latterly because, although there have been occasional outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease, Scotland is still comparatively free. I must remind my hon. Friend that it is a mistake to suppose that precautionary regulations have not been made for England and Wales. Every local authority has power to prohibit or regulate the movement of animals into 1497 its district from the district of any other local authority in any part of the United Kingdom. The Order prohibiting importation into Ireland is an Order of the Irish Privy Council, over which I have no control.