Sir Harry Barnston: Obviously, I could not answer that question without notice.
Sir Harry Barnston: I have been asked to reply. Ten outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease have occurred during the week-end from 9 p.m. on Friday to 12 noon to-day. One of these (at Liddington, near Swindon) was in a free area and the remainder are in existing infected areas. Full particulars of the above cases, and a statement of the present infected areas with the number of outbreaks in each, are being...
Sir Harry Barnston: I have been asked to reply. My right hon. Friend is at present considering the Report in question, and is not yet in a position to indicate what action he may take in the matter. I would point out, however, that, as regards the suggestion in the last part, the public can form their own conclusions from the Report and evidence which have been published.
Sir Harry Barnston: The Report can be obtained cheaper than that.
Sir Harry Barnston: The reply to the first part is in the affirmative. With regard to the last part, my right hon. Friend cannot indicate any course of action with regard to this traffic until he has had an opportunity to consider the Report of the Departmental Committee, which he has just received.
Sir Harry Barnston: I cannot say, but my right hon. Friend has just received the Report.
Sir Harry Barnston: I imagine so, but I cannot say.
Sir Harry Barnston: My right hon. Friend is making local inquiries, and will communicate with the hon. Member as soon as possible.
Sir Harry Barnston: I have been asked to reply. My right hon. Friend is circulating in the OFFICIAL REPORT a statement giving the current minimum rates of wages for adult workers for each area, as decided by the agricultural wages committees.
Sir Harry Barnston: I have been asked to reply. My hon. and gallant Friend has not yet received this Report, but understands that it will probably be ready for presentation within the next day or two.
Sir Harry Barnston: I have been asked to reply for my right hon. Friend the Minister of Agriculture. The Council of Agriculture for England, along with other agricultural organisations, was invited by my right hon. Friend to submit proposals in regard to agricultural policy, and the Council appointed a special Committee to consider the question. The Committee is about to submit its Report, and my right hon....
Sir Harry Barnston: for the I have been asked to reply. The answer is, approximately, £2,200,000.
Sir Harry Barnston: I have been asked to reply. My right hon. Friend will gladly bring this matter to the notice of his right hon. Friend the Minister of Transport, with a view to seeing whether any action is possible in the direction indicated.
Sir Harry Barnston: (for So far as my right hon. Friend is aware, no estimate of the kind referred to is available. The capital cost of providing small holdings varies according as to whether cottages and farm buildings have to be erected, and also as to whether the holdings are to be devoted to dairying, mixed farming, market gardening or poultry-keeping. No estimate of the average cost of providing holdings...
Sir Harry Barnston: The Report of the Committee is, my right hon. Friend understands, now in draft. There are a few outstanding points which require consideration, but my right hon. Friend expects the Report to be presented shortly.
Sir Harry Barnston: My right hon. Friend is informed that by the time the owner of the neighbouring herd could make arrangements with Mr. Kew to treat his animals, disinfection of the infected premises had been completed, and the disease had ceased to exist. The fact that the disease did not spread to the neighbouring farm cannot, therefore, be attributed to the use of Mr. Kew's specific. My right hon. Friend...
Sir Harry Barnston: I will bring that question to the notice of my right hon. Friend.
Sir Harry Barnston: I have been asked to reply. Of the sugar-beet factory companies that have obtained the subsidy, 15 directors are of British and two of foreign nationality.
Sir Harry Barnston: I am afraid I cannot.
Sir Harry Barnston: My right hon. Friend is afraid that, until the returns of the acreage in this country of the various crops as on 4th June have been tabulated, he is not in a position to give the information for which my hon. Friend asks.