§ Mr. WigleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish a table indicating the number of farms in Wales affected by the sheep movement prohibition resulting from the Chernobyl disaster, in each year since that disaster occurred, together with an estimate of the number of sheep involved in each year.
§ Mr. David HuntThe information is given in the following table:
Date Approximate number of holdings Approximate number of sheep (post-lambing) 20 June 19861 5,100 2,000,000 1 January 1987 315 225,000 1 January 19882 416 300,000 1 January 1989 416 300,000 1 January 1990 416 300,000 14 January 19913 410 292,000 1 Date of first Statutory Instrument imposing restrictions. 2 Some re-restriction was necessary during 1987 on about 2 per cent, of those holdings released from restriction during 1986. 3 Date of most recent Statutory Instrument derestricting part of the restricted area.