§ Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHYasked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is aware that, under the pretext of importing working horses, a great number of horses are imported into Belgium by English dealers and sold and slaughtered in a very primitive way; and whether he will consider the introduction of legislation to prevent this trade being carried on with live animals, with the consequent suffering involved, and compel the dealers to have the animals slaughtered in England before they are exported to the Continent?
Mr. WOODThe conditions of the export trade in horses from Great Britain to the Continent are at present under investigation by a Departmental Committee and I cannot anticipate their report.