§ MR. FIELDTo ask the hon. Member for South Somerset, as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture, whether he can state which is the particular authority responsible for the due carrying out of the various orders promulgated from time to time by the Board of Agriculture for regulating the movement of swine; whether he is aware that difficulty has arisen in different parts of the kingdom, to the inconvenience and loss of traders and all concerned in the rearing, feeding, and sale of pigs; also whether more convenient methods than those now in vogue could be adopted.
(Answered by Sir Edward Strachey.) The orders in question are executed and enforced by the various local authorities under the Diseases of Animals Acts. It is, I fear, inevitable that restrictions of the character referred to should cause some inconvenience and possibly loss to traders and others concerned, but the Board endeavour to mitigate such in convenience, so far as this can be done consistently with the attainment of the object which they have in view.