§ 30. Mr. FIELDasked the Secretary to the Local Government Board whether, in view of the encouragement offered for developing the swine industry of the United Kingdom, some alteration in the existing measures dealing with the sale and movement of pigs will be immediately initiated, inasmuch as at present administered these are prejudicial to the efforts of traders and feeders, as the returns of seizures and condemnations made since the beginning of the War prove; and whether, having regard to the difficulties thus indicated, he will give official sanction to local authorities to modify their by-laws?
§ Sir R. WINFREYThe only restrictions on the movement and sale of live pigs are those which are prescribed by Orders under the Diseases of Animals Acts, administered by the Board of Agriculture. The general modification of these restrictions is a matter which the Board have under consideration, though they have at present nothing to add to the last part of the answer given to a question on the subject by my hon. Friend on the 19th of this month.