§ Mr. Adleyasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if, in view of the fact that British citizens are numerically the largest group of those against whom charges were brought under the Rabies (Importation of Dogs, Cats and Other Mammals) Order 1974, he will invite Great Britain's EEC partners to introduce regulations subjecting the animals of visiting Britons to quarantine regulations similar to those applicable to people entering Great Britain, as a means of preventing British people from taking their pets with them when they go abroad.
§ Mr. StrangIt would be unreasonable to ask other countries to introduce regu-22W lations which would be uneconomical to establish and maintain and of no benefit to them. In 1975 British citizens accounted for little more than one-third of those against whom charges were brought under the rabies legislation, and over three-quarters of them acquired the animals concerned abroad.