HL Deb 30 April 1996 vol 571 cc141-4WA
Lord Marlesford

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether they will give by county the number of cases of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in the United Kingdom that were notified each month since such records were started.

Lord Lucas

Attached are tables showing the total number of confirmed BSE cases in the United Kingdom since November 1986, as at 12th April 1996.

To provide the information in the way requested could only be done at disproportionate cost.

BSE County Summary (Great Britain); Week Ending Friday 12th April 1996
Total number of cases confirmed since November 1986
Region/County Cases
Northern
Cleveland 221
Cumbria 5,029
Durham 785
Humberside 875
Northumberland 1,088
Tyne and Wear 52
Yorkshire North 6,914
Yorkshire South 681
Yorkshire West 999
Total 16,644
Midlands and Western
Cheshire 6,456
Derbyshire 3,807
Hereford and Worcester 2,678
Lancashire 5,295
Leicestershire 3,175
Manchester 194
Merseyside 125
Nottinghamshire 965
Shropshire 3,960
Staffordshire 4,094

BSE County Summary (Great Britain); Week Ending Friday 12th April 1996
Total number of cases confirmed since November 1986
Region/County Cases
West Midlands 123
Warwickshire 1,549
Total 32,421
Eastern
Bedfordshire 453
Cambridgeshire 504
Essex 873
Hertfordshire 686
Lincolnshire 1,176
Norfolk 3,984
Northamptonshire 1,327
Suffolk 1,982
Total 10,985
South West
Avon 2,975
Cornwall 9,898
Devon 13,966
Dorset 9,407
Gloucestershire 3,246
Scilly Isles 1
Somerset 12,407
Wiltshire 7,019
Total 58,919
South East
Berkshire 828
Buckinghamshire 1,388
Hampshire 3,880
Isle of Wight 795
Kent 2,137
London 139
Oxfordshire 2,226
Surrey 1,245
Sussex East 1,882
Sussex West 3,229
Total 17,749
Wales
Clwyd 2,472
Dyfed 7,735
Glamorgan Mid 250
Glamorgan South 426
Glamorgan West 117
Gwent 1,104
Gwynedd 686
Powys 2,292
Total 15,082
Scotland-South
Borders 504
Central 222
Dumfries 2,262
Lothian 212
Strathclyde 1,816
Scotland-North
Fife 334
Grampian 1,323
Highland 328
Orkney 96

BSE County Summary (Great Britain); Week Ending Friday 12th April 1996
Total number of cases confirmed since November 1986
Region/County Cases
Shetland 10
Tayside 565
Western Isles 1
Scottish Total 7,673
Overall total for Great Britain 159,473

Note:

Cases confirmed in a particular month will have a date of clinical onset of disease and date of report prior to that month. In addition, in counties where incidence is low, the number of confirmed cases may show a reduction when purchased cases are reallocated to other premises in a different county.

Northern Ireland County Summary: Week Ending 12th April 1996
Total number of cases confirmed since 29th November 1988
County Cases
Antrim 466
Armagh 120
Down 305
Fermanagh 151
Londonderry 308
Tyrone 348