Foot and Mouth Disease

Part of Opposition Day – in the House of Commons at 4:19 pm on 21 March 2001.

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Mr. Chris Ruatle:

I had a meeting with five farmers in my constituency on Monday. In Wales, in the Vale of Clwyd, we have many small farms, which send only two or three animals to slaughter at a time. Those farmers asked whether it would be possible to send their two or three animals to a central location if their vehicles were disinfected when they left the farm and got to the central location so that the animals could be collected by a large wagon and taken off to slaughter.