§ MR. WATTI beg to ask the Secretary for Scotland whether, in 496 view of the facts that chilled meat, marked U.S., inspected, and passed, was seized in Glasgow Meat Market on 18th and 20th February, and found unfit for human food, that this meat showed no evidence of having been previously inspected, that United States statistics show that each inspector there has to examine the car cases and viscera of at least 937 animals daily, he will take steps to ensure greater precaution in admitting into Scotland this class of meat for human consumption.
§ THE SECRETARY FOR SCOTLAND (Mr. SINCLAIR, Forfarshire)I am not in a position to confirm the suggestion in my hon. friend's Question as to the conditions under which meat is inspected in the United States. The Local Government Board for Scotland have no power to take any stops to ensure greater precaution in the admission into Scotland of the class of moat referred to. I am informed that chilled and frozen meat does not come direct to Scotland from the United States, but that it usually goes to London or Liverpool and is consigned to Scottish centres from those Ports.