asked the Minister of Agriculture what action the Government is taking to encourage re- search into the causes of swine fever, in view of the large increase in the number of outbreaks of this disease in 1929?

I am now considering a scheme for the development of research into animal diseases generally, and propose to include swine fever in the expanded programme of work. A certain amount of research on the subject has already been conducted at the Ministry's laboratory at Weybridge.