HC Deb 13 December 1926 vol 200 c2540
14. Mr. HURD

asked the Minister of Agriculture what are the grounds for the announcement made on behalf of his Ministry to the Royal Agricultural Society that the discovery of a preventive of foot-and-mouth disease may be anticipated in the coming year?

Mr. GUINNESS

I am informed that no definite anticipation was expressed that a preventive would be discovered in the coming year. The stage reached in the various lines of investigation now being pursued under the direction of the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Research Committee will be fully explained in the second progress Report now in the Press.