§ Miss Quennellasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether his attention has been drawn to growing public anxiety about the burning of straw on fields by farmers, and the damage done to hedges, hedgerows trees, &c. ; and what his policy towards this practice now is.
§ Mr. Anthony StodartYes. I would refer my hon. Friend to the reply which I gave to my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Huntingdonshire (Sir D. Renton) and the hon. Member for Wandsworth, Central (Mr. Thomas Cox) on 18th October.—[Vol. 861, c. 254–5.]