HC Deb 24 February 1908 vol 184 c1366
MR. O'SHAUGHNESSY

I beg to ask the hon. Member for South Somerset, as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture, if he can say whether the Board of Agriculture has yet come to a decision with regard to the importation of foreign forage into the United Kingdom, owing to the existence of foot-and-mouth disease among cattle in the Netherlands.

SIR EDWARD STRACHEY

No decision has yet been arrived at in this matter.

MR. O'SHAUGHNESSY

How long will the Department think before they come to a decision in the matter? Is it the view of the Board that this disease can be kept out of the United Kingdom without preventing foreign forage coming into this country?

SIR EDWARD STRACHEY

The President of the Board is considering the question.

MR. O'SHAUGHNESSY

He has been doing so for the last fortnight and has not yet come to a decision.