§ 67. Sir I. Fraserasked the Minister of Agriculture if he will consider a long term plan to provide feedingstuffs for the production of sufficient home grown poultry to permit severe restriction of imports of poultry from countries where fowl pest is endemic; and, meantime, if he will institute a propaganda campaign to inform the public and farmers how to avoid or mitigate fowl pest.
Mr. T. WilliamsIt has always been the Government's policy to increase as far as practicable our supplies of animal feedingstuffs, but I am afraid there is nothing I can yet add to the reply which I gave the hon. Member for Guildford (Mr. Nugent) on 23rd March about rations for poultry keepers. As regards the second part of the Question, extensive publicity has been maintained over the past three years by means of Press announcements, broadcasts, distribution of leaflets to poultry keepers, talks at poultry shows, and so on, and I shall continue to take every opportunity of reminding poultry keepers of the precautions against fowl pest.