Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture. – in the House of Commons on 4th March 1940.
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he will make regulations to provide compensation for damage done to farming land by hunting folk riding over sodden or sown fields; whether he is aware that masters of foxhounds are notifying poultry keepers that no payments for poultry killed by foxes will be made during the war; and whether he will take steps to secure compensation?