§ 9. Mr. SAMUEL ROBERTSasked the President of the Board of Agriculture whether, in view of the importance of a healthy supply of butchers' meat and of the losses sustained by butchers and others, he will consider the advisability of extending the provisions of the Tuberculosis Order, 1913, as to compensation for apparently healthy animals which, when slaughtered for human food, prove to be suffering from tuberculosis?
§ Mr. RUNCIMANThe Board have no power to extend the provisions of the Tuberculosis Order in respect to payment of compensation so as to include animals other than those slaughtered by their direction under the Diseases of Animals Acts.
§ Mr. S. ROBERTSIn view of the importance of this matter, will the right hon. Gentleman consider whether some legislation could be introduced to deal with it?
§ Mr. RUNCIMANThe powers exercised by the Board of Agriculture are exercised under the Diseases of Animals Act, which would not meet the point raised in the question of the hon. Member. I think he ought to address the question to the Local Government Board.
§ Mr. C. BATHURSTIs there any administrative or logical reason why a similar Order should not be issued in relation to pigs?
§ Mr. RUNCIMANI have not considered that.