§ Mr. CHARLES BATHURSTasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture whether the terms of reference to the recently appointed Departmental Committee on the British export trade in live stock with the Colonies and other countries will admit of the consideration of the best means of putting a stop to the attempts on the part of unscrupulous exporters to nullify the value of the tuberculin test in the case of pedigree cattle by its repeated application at short intervals, resulting in the discredit of, and loss of trade to, the general body of British breeders and exporters; and, if not, whether the Board will specifically widen the terms of reference so as to include the consideration of this question?
The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of AGRICULTURE (Sir Edward- Strachey)The reply to the first part of the question is in the affirmative.