HC Deb 11 May 1992 vol 207 cc27-30W
Dr. David Clark

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list the total number of confirmed cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy by county or region in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to the latest available date.

Mr. Gummer

The information requested to 1 May 1992 is as follows:

County Confirmed cases
ENGLAND
Avon 1,123
Bedfordshire 144
Berkshire 299
Buckinghamshire 469
Cambridgeshire 174
Cheshire 1,779
Cleveland 65
Cornwall 4,052
Cumbria 1,304
Derbyshire 950
Devon 5,586
Dorset 4,209
Durham 187
Essex 229
Gloucestershire 1,368
Hampshire 1,670
Hereford and Worcestershire 915
Hertfordshire 177
Humberside 227
Isle of Wight 347
Kent 916
Lancastershire 1,403
Leicestershire 1,163
Lincolnshire 390
London 28
Manchester 62
Merseyside 40
Norfolk 1,019
Northamptonshire 470
Northumberland 242
Nottinghamshire 288
Oxon 835
Salop 1,205
Somerset 4,929
Staffordshire 1,164
Suffolk 604
Surrey 458
Sussex East 691
Sussex West 1,213
Tyne and Wear 11
Warwickshire 509
West Midlands 26
Wiltshire 3,063
Yorkshire North 1,998
Yorkshire South 167
Yorkshire West 259
WALES
County
Clwyd 720
Dyfed 2,549
Glamorgan M 104
Glamorgan S 142
Glamorgan W 24
Gwent 385
Gwynedd 166
Powys 521
SCOTLAND
Borders 111
Central 50
Dumfries 498
Fife 98
Grampian 330
Highland 91
Lothian 42
Orkney 18
Shetland 5
Strathclyde 487
Tayside 133
Western Isles 1

County Confirmed cases
NORTHERN IRELAND
County
Antrim 135
Armagh 26
Down 78
Fermanagh 36
Londonderry 50
Tyrone 73

Dr. David Clark

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list the total number of confirmed cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy by county or region in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland from 1 January until the latest available date.

Mr. Gummer

The number of cases confirmed for England, Wales and Scotland from 3 January 1992, and for Northern Ireland from 17 January 1992, to 1 May 1992 is as follows. Many of these cases will have a date of clinical onset of disease, and indeed date of report, before 3 January.

Confirmed cases
ENGLAND
County
Avon 204
Bedfordshire 24
Berkshire 54
Buckinghamshire 88
Cambridgeshire 33
Cheshire 357
Cleveland 13
Cornwall 741
Cumbria 331
Derbyshire 258
Devon 948
Dorset 728
Durham 35
Essex 52
Gloucestershire 188
Hampshire 226
Hereford and Worcester 154
Hertfordshire 22
Humberside 32
Isle of Wight 45
Kent 130
Lancashire 347
Leicestershire 187
Lincolnshire 63
London 7
Manchester 16
Merseyside 15
Norfolk 239
Northamptonshire 94
Northumberland 50
Nottinghamshire 50
Oxfordshire 176
Shropshire 223
Somerset 946
Staffordshire 482
Suffolk 109
Surrey 89
Sussex, East 133
Sussex, West 233
Tyne and Wear 3
Warwickshire 80
West Midlands 5
Wiltshire 491
Yorkshire, North 391
Yorkshire, South 31
Yorkshire, West 51

Confirmed cases
WALES:
Clwyd 156
Dyfed 565
Glamorgan M 15
Glamorgan S 37
Glamorgan W 5
Gwent 79
Gwynedd 34
Powys 104
SCOTLAND:
Borders 30
Central 10
Dumfries 169
Fife 17
Grampian 69
Highland 17
Lothian 12
Orkney 5
Shetland 2
Strathclyde 118
Tayside 25
Western Isles 0
NORTHERN IRELAND:
Antrim 33
Armagh 5
Down 15
Fermanagh 5
Londonderry 12
Tyrone 16

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