§ Mr. VIVIANasked the hon. Member for South Somerset, as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture, whether he can give the House any information concerning the correspondence by the Foreign Office with the Argentine Republic on the cattle embargo; whether such correspondence confirms the information from other quarters that disease does not now exist in that country; and, if such is the fact, can he now say that the embargo will be removed?
§ Sir E. STRACHEYThe correspondence to which my hon. Friend refers confirms the information that the Argentine Government have declared the country free from foot and mouth disease, and it deals also with the sanitary regulations affecting animals in that country. Further information is, however, required before the Board are in a position to decide as to the advisability of modifying the existing restrictions, and the Board have asked the Foreign Office to obtain it from the Argentine Government.