HC Deb 26 February 1969 vol 778 cc298-9W
62. Mr. Hazell

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will now introduce legislation to make compulsory the treatment against warble fly in cattle.

Mr. John Mackie

Treatment against warble fly is a matter of good husbandry and a law requiring individual farmers to carry it out could not be enforced. We are, however, currently discussing the problem of warble fly control with the interests concerned to consider whether there is anything apart from this that we can do to help.