§ Mr. CHARLES BATHURSTasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture whether he is aware of the inconvenience caused by the sheep-scab regulations of the Board during the non-dipping season of the year to flock owners in a non-infected area where the only sheep market of the district is within the boundary of a large adjoining scheduled area; and whether the Board will consider the desirability, as suggested to them by the Gloucestershire Farmer's Union, of limiting the scheduled area to a radius of five or six miles round the site of an outbreak of the disease, except in districts where mountain sheep are kept?
§ Sir E. STRACHEYThe local authority for Gloucestershire have made regulations 1999 with a view to prevent the spread of sheep-scab in their district, and there seems no reason to interfere with their discretion in the matter. No "areas" are "scheduled" in connection with outbreaks of sheep-scab, but the infected plot and the contact sheep are dealt with by means of detention notices.