§ 6. Mrs. Joyce Butlerasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will now introduce regulations to control the use of antibiotics in intensive rearing of poultry and farm animals.
§ Mr. Cledwyn HughesThe use of antibiotics in animal husbandry and veterinary medicine has been under consideration by the Committee, under the chairmanship of Professor Michael Swann, which was announced in reply to my hon. Friends the members for Wood Green (Mrs. Joyce Butler) and Wandsworth, Central (Dr. David Kerr) on 15th May last year. My right hon. Friends and I have now received the Committee's Report and I am glad of this opportunity to affirm our thanks to Professor Swann and his colleagues for discharging their difficult task so carefully and so expeditiously. We are studying the Committee's recommendations and the Report will be published as soon as possible.—[Vol. 764, c. 1213–14.]