§ Mr. HALPIN (Clare, W.)I beg to ask the hon. Member for South Somerset, as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture whether he is aware that six years ago, a mild outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease having been reported as prevailing in some French departments adjacent to those from which fodder was being shipped to Jersey, the State forthwith passed a law prohibiting the importation of fodder from the whole of France, and that, although, according to French official statements, the infected departments have been free of the plague for some considerable time, the prohibition remains in force and the law was renewed at this last 1907 legislative session; and will His Majesty's Government pass a law prohibiting Continental fodder coming into Great Britain and Ireland.
§ THE TREASURER OF THE HOUSEHOLD (Sir EDWARD STRACHEY.) Somersetshire, S.I understand that the importation of fodder into Jersey from France has been prohibited since 1900, and that in 1907 the prohibition was extended to fodder brought from Guernsey and its. dependencies. The suggestion that similar restrictions should be adopted in the United Kingdom is under consideration.