HC Deb 28 March 1973 vol 853 c326W
Mr. Bray

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will instruct local authorities using imported trees and shrubs for environmental improvement schemes that all such imports shall be certified free of disease and that any not so certified will prejudice any grant payable upon the scheme in which they may be used.

Mr. Graham Page

This is unnecessary because measures for ensuring the plant health of imported trees and shrubs are already operated by my right hon. Friends the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State for Scotland and by the Forestry Commission.