Captain TERRELLasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture whether, owing to the outbreak of mouth disease at Kingsbury, farmers are not permitted to bring rams into the surrounding area; that as a result ewes are being sold off wholesale; and whether, as it is suggested stock should be brought into the area and not sent outside, the Board will, in the interests of breeding, raise the embargo in these particular cases?
Sir A. BOSCAWENOwing to an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, the Board, on the 2nd instant, imposed restrictions on the movement of stock out of, into, and within a large area surrounding the premises at Kingsbury on which disease was detected. Three more outbreaks have occurred since that date, and there has also been extension of the disease to other stock in two instances. The Board have already modified the restrictions to allow certain movements within the district, but they cannot at this stage allow movement into the district as suggested by my hon. and gallant Friend. Further modification of the restrictions will take place as soon as the position justifies it.