HC Deb 23 February 1948 vol 447 c287W
53. Mr. Philips Price

asked the Minister of Agriculture the numbers of veterinary surgeons engaged in administering the bovine tuberculosis eradication and other disease control schemes for livestock; what number of these are engaged full time on these schemes; and what number are working part time as well as at their private practices.

Mr. T. Williams

Some 1,770 veterinary surgeons are employed by my Department upon the eradication and control of diseases of livestock; of these 386 are whole-time officers and the remainder part-time.