§ Mr. Bossomasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department in view of the serious condition which continues to exist due to the failure to control dogs and prevent them worrying sheep, cows and pigs, if he will now deal with the matter as the existing Regulations are not sufficient to give satisfactory results.
§ Sir T. DugdaleI have been asked to reply.
As I stated in reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Huntingdon (Mr. Renton) on 11 th December there is, at present, no 192W prospect of the Government being able to introduce legislation on this subject. I will, however, study sympathetically the provisions of the Dogs (Protection of Livestock) Bill, introduced by my hon. Friend the Member for Pavilion, Brighton (Mr. Teeling) which is down for Second Reading on 13th March.
Statutory measures can in any case never provide a complete solution to this problem, and much depends on the recognition by dog owners of the importance of keeping their dogs under control when near livestock.