§ Mr. EVERARDasked the Minister of Agriculture whether any research work is being carried out at the present time to endeavour to discover a quick and effective method of determining whether milk is tubercular?
§ Sir G. HENNESSYI have been asked to reply on behalf of the Lord President of the Council, as the subject falls within the scope of the Medical Research Council. Various investigations have been promoted during the past few years in the attempt to devise better methods for the purpose. One of these, undertaken jointly by workers at the National Institute for Medical Research and at the National Institute for Research in Dairying, made possible a considerable improvement of pre-existing methods. An account of this was published in 1925, and I can give my hon. Friend the reference. The subject is being kept in view, and further investigations will be made if new means of attacking this difficult problem can be found.