§ Mr. Bryant Godman Irvineasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he will end the practice of the Forestry Commission requiring that a licence should be obtained before trees affected by elm disease are felled, in view of the fact that this requirement, by delaying felling, increases the risk of infection spreading to other trees.
§ Mr. Anthony StodartIn the great majority of cases, including those where a felling notice has been served by a local authority, licences are not required for felling infectious elms. There is, 381W however, one remaining technical exception, which the Forestry Commission is seeking to remove in regulations which will be shortly laid before Parliament. I would like to emphasise that only recently dead or very badly affected elms need be felled in order to check the spread of the disease, as these are the source of infection.
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