§ Mr. ROTHSCHILDasked the President of the Board of Agriculture whether, in view of the spreading of bee distemper throughout Great Britain and of the effects of that disease upon the bee-keeping industry, the Government will take immediate legislative action to proclaim areas infected by the disease, to regulate or prohibit the transport of bees and the appurtenances of bee-keeping within those districts or from those districts to uninfected districts, and for the compulsory destruction, when necessary, of bees and the appurtenances of bee-keeping in the infected districts, subject to fair compensation, in the same manner and upon the same terms as are provided in the Diseases of Animals Act, 1894, or any other Act for the purpose of suppressing or localising diseases of an infectious nature in animals or plants?
§ Mr. RUNCIMANI hope shortly to introduce legislation on the lines suggested.