HC Deb 19 February 1953 vol 511 cc159-60W
Mr. Murray

92, 93 and 94. asked the Minister of Health (1) the number of pigs kept on hospital farms under his control in the United Kingdom for the years 1949, 1950, 1951 and 1952;

(2) the number and names of hospital farms under his control in the United Kingdom that keep pedigree stock; and the number of such stock on each farm;

(3) how many pigs from hospital farms under his control in the United Kingdom have been slaughtered for the benefit of the hospitals; and how many have been sent to Ministry of Food slaughterhouses for slaughter during the years 1949, 1950, 1951 and 1952.

Mr. Iain Macleod

None of the information asked for is at present available, but I am at present conducting a special inquiry into hospital farming generally.

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