HC Deb 30 March 1994 vol 240 cc767-8W
Mr. Cohen

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will give a breakdown of feline spongiform encephalopathy cases for each month since the first case was reported and the areas in which they occurred.

Mr. Soames

This disease is not notifiable to the Ministry and report to the Ministry is usually by private veterinary surgeons. The information requested is therefore listed by date of onset of clinical signs of the disease and is as follows:

Date of onset County
1989
November Avon
1990
January Leicestershire
February Gloucestershire
March Somerset
March Clwyd
April Hereford and Worcestershire
May West Glamorgan
June Hampshire
June Leicestershire
July Avon
September Cornwall
September Strathclyde
October Cornwall
October Suffolk
October North Yorkshire
October West Yorkshire
December Clwyd
1991
March Lancashire
May Devon
June Shetland
August Dorset
August Berkshire
August Fife
September Guernsey
November Bedfordshire

Date of onset County
December Clwyd
1992
February Derbyshire
March Somerset
April Dorset
April Clwyd
April Gloucestershire
August Hertfordshire
August Shropshire
August Wiltshire
August Surrey
September Hereford and Worcestershire
October Norfolk
October Bedfordshire
October Gloucestershire
December Surrey
1993
May Cambridgeshire
May Cumbria
August Nottinghamshire
August Durham
September Strathclyde
October Devon
November Surrey