HC Deb 15 August 1940 vol 364 cc965-6
51. Mr. Emery

asked the Minister of Agriculture whether, in view of the fact that Cheviot and Black-faced breeds of sheep are the bases of the national sheep-stock and require no imported foodstuffs, he will initiate consideration of a policy of supplementing war-time food and wool supplies by placing an increased number of these breeds on drained idle pastures and idle residential grasslands of Sussex and Hampshire; and will he begin to prepare, in those counties, heather areas for hill sheep?

Mr. Hudson

I will consider my hon. Friend's suggestion.

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