§ Mr. Masonasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he has now considered the proposals made to him by the National Farmers Union on 23 June especially concerning a code of practice designed 354W to eliminate whirling disease and the removal of whirling diseases from the list of notifiable disease; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. MacGregorThe points made by the NFU in its paper of 23 June relate to the implementation of the Diseases of Fish Act 1983. When my right hon. Friend and I have reached decisions on these matters we shall inform the House.