HC Deb 20 January 1948 vol 446 c12W
83. Mr. Butcher

asked the Minister of Agriculture whether with a view to ensuring the prompt notification of bees affected with foul brood, he will amend the Foul Brood Disease of Bees Order, 1942, to enable him to pay compensation to bee-keepers whose hives are destroyed.

Mr. G. Brown

No. Destruction of bees, under the Order, is required only where the existence of the disease is confirmed in a hive after laboratory examination of a sample of the comb, and is in the beekeeper's own interest.