§ Captain Kerbyasked the Minister of Agriculture Fisheries and Food if he will so amend his Quarantine Regulations as to permit the importation of dogs into the United Kingdom without quarantine from certain areas where local quarantine regulations are strictly enforced, such as Jamaica, and where there has been no case of rabies for 50 years.
Mr. AmoryI do not feel that I should be justified in making any exceptions whatever to the current Regulations. I would remind my hon. Friend that a committee of the World Health Organisation have recommended that countries which are free from rabies should continue to prohibit the import of dogs and cats, or subject them on importation to a long period of quarantine—preferably six months.