§ Mr. TylerTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what are the latest figures for the numbers of cattle infected with tuberculosis shown by MAFF administrative area, and the figures for 1979, 1984, and 1989; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mrs Browning[holding answer 25 October 1994]: The total numbers of confirmed cases in each animal health office administrative area in 1989 and for the first six months of 1994 were as follows:
1989 1994(First 6 months) South West England Cornwall 57 86 Devon 18 66 Dorset 6 6 Gloucester/Avon 27 37 Somerset 3 6 Wiltshire 9 16 Elsewhere in England Essex/Hertfordshire — 2 Durham/Tyne and Wear/Cleveland/Northumberland 3 1 Kent/East Sussex 4 — Lancashire/Greater Manchester/Greater Merseyside — 1 Leicestershire 1 1 Lincolnshire 1 — Norfolk 1 — Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire — 2 Oxfordshire/Buckinghamshire/Berkshire 4 1 Shropshire 5 — Suffolk 1 — Surrey/Middlesex/West Sussex 1 — Warwickshire/West Midlands 2 — Worcestershire/Herefordshire — 6 Wales Clwyd 1 — Dyfed 9 27 Glamorgan/Gwent 2 8 Powys — 3 Scotland Aberdeen 1 — Ayr 3 — Dumfries 1 1 Elgin 2 — Galashiels 1 — Perth 1 1 The total number of confirmed herd cases in England, Scotland and Wales in 1979 was 117 and in 1984 was 114. The numbers for each administrative area for these years are not available.