asked the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations and the Colonies what information he has as to the use now being made of the new slaughterhouse buildings erected in Grenville, Grenada, in 1959.

Owing to drainage problems the slaughterhouse building in Grenville, Grenada, is not yet in use.

Can my hon. Friend say when these problems will be put right? Will he not agree that this slaughterhouse was introduced in order that animals should be humanely slaughtered? There is concern at the fact that it is not being put to the use for which it was designed.

In fact, I should correct my hon. Friend. The slaughterhouse was completed in 1961, not 1959. I am sorry for the delay and have asked our administrator in Grenada to take urgent action about it. I think that the conditions in which animals are slaughtered are satisfactory. Indeed, the local branch of the R.S.P.C.A. is very active in Grenada and we should have had complaints if the conditions were not satisfactory.