§ MR. FFRENCH (Wexford, S.)I beg to ask the hon. Member for South Somerset, as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture, whether he is aware that by order of the inspectors acting under the Board of Agriculture over £100 worth of pigs are seized for tuberculosis every week at Birmingham; whether he is aware that in the opinion of the salesmen the best pigs are destroyed; and whether, as the pig dealers believe they are unjustly treated owing to the fact that the head of the pig is sometimes rejected as unfit for human food while the rest of the carcase is passed, he will order an inquiry into the action of the inspectors at Birmingham.
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. JOHN BURNS,) BatterseaPerhaps I may be allowed to answer this Question. I understand that the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries have no inspectors at Birmingham, and I presume that the inspectors to whom the hon. Member refers are the meat inspectors of the town council. I will communicate with the town council on the subject mentioned in the Question, and send an Answer to the hon. Member.