§ MR. FIELDTo ask the hon. Member for South Somerset, as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture, whether he is aware that carcases of calves are imported from Holland and Belgium with the skins on; whether his experts consider it safe to allow this importation from a country where cattle disease exists; and whether he will make inquiries and regulations regarding it.
(Answered by Sir Edward Strachey.) The subject to which my hon. friend refers has been frequently under consideration, but it has not been thought necessary or practicable to place restrictions on the trade in dead meat. The carcases in question seldom, if ever, come in contact with animals, and no, outbreak of disease has been circumstantially traced to them.