§ Mr. PaiceTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list for each county the number of herd breakdowns of tuberculosis for(a) 1996, (b) 1997 and (c) 1998 to date. [48587]
§ Mr. Rooker[holding answer 2 July 1998]: Figures for the numbers of new confirmed herd breakdowns for 1996 were kept only on an Animal Health Divisional Office basis and are not available by county. These are presented, giving an indication of the counties which are covered by each Divisional Office. Figures for 1997 are given by county. Figures for 1998 cannot be provided by county in the time available, but I will write to the hon. Member with the information relating to the first six months of 1998 when I have it.
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Region/AHO/County 1996 (by AHO) 1997 (by county) England Northern Region Carlisle (AHO) 1 — Cumbria — 0 Northumberland — 0 Durham — 0 Tyne & Wear — 0 Cleveland — 0 320W
Region/AHO/County 1996(by AHO) 1997(by county) Leeds (AHO) 1 — North Yorkshire — 0 South Yorkshire — 0 West Yorkshire — 0 Preston (AHO) 1 — Lancashire — 0 Greater Manchester — 0 Merseyside — 0 Stafford (AHO) 13 — Staffordshire — 24 Cheshire — 0 Derbyshire — 1 Lincoln (AHO) 1 — Lincolnshire — 0 Nottinghamshire — 0 Humberside — 0 East Region Leicester (AHO) 4 — Leicestershire — 0 Northamptonshire — 0 West Midlands — 0 Warwickshire — 0 Bury St. Edmunds (AOH) 0 — Suffolk — 0 Norfolk — 0 Cambridgeshire — 0 Chelmsford (AHO) 1 — Essex — 1 Bedfordshire — 0 Hertfordshire — 0 Greater London — 0 Reading (AHO) 0 — Oxfordshire — 0 Berkshire — 0 Buckinghamshire — 0 Hampshire — 0 Isle of Wight — 0 Reigate (AHO) 2 — Surrey — 0 West Sussex — 0 East Sussex — 4 Kent — 0 West Region Taunton (AHO) 20 — Somerset — 27 Dorset — 12 Exeter (AHO) 74 — Devon — 82 Truro (AHO) 87 — Cornwall — 74 Isles of Scilly — 0 Worcester (AHO) 58 — Hereford & Worcester — 86 Shropshire — 7 Gloucester (AHO) 90 — Gloucestershire — 85 Wiltshire — 30 Avon — 10 England total 353 443
Region/AHO/County 1996 (by AHO) 1997 (by county) Wales Carmarthen (AHO) 32 — Dyfed — 24 Caernarfon (AHO) 2 — Clwyd — 0 N. Powys — 0 Gwynedd — 0 Cardiff (AHO) 68 — Mid Glamorgan — 2 Powys — 1 South Glamorgan — 0 Gwent — 33 West Glamorgan — 2 Wales total 102 62 Scotland Inverness (AHO) 1 — Inverness-shire — 0 Ross & Cromarty — 0 Caithness — 2 Nairn — 0 Sutherland — 0 Inverurie (AHO) 2 — Moray — 0 Aberdeenshire — 2 Orkney — 0 Shetland — 0 Banffshire — 0 Perth (AHO) 2 — Perthshire — 1 Kinross — 0 Angus — 0 Fife — 0 Argyll — 0 Dunbartonshire — 1 Stirling — 0 Clackmannan — 0 Bute — 0 Kincardine — 1 Galashiels (AHO) 1 — East Lothian — 0 Mid Lothian — 0 West Lothian — 0 Lanarkshire — 1 Berwickshire — 0 Peeblesshire — 0 Roxburghshire — 0 Selkirkshire — 0 Ayr (AHO) 10 — Ayrshire — 0 Dumfriesshire — 0 Kirkcudbright — 1 Renfrewshire — 0 Wigtownshire — 1 Scotland total 16 10 Great Britain total 471 515
§ Mr. PaiceTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what plans he has to reduce the interval between tests for TB in cattle. [48585]
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§ Mr. Rooker[holding answer 2 July 1998]: We plan to review our cattle testing arrangements in the light of amendments recently agreed to the EC legislation which sets out the minimum testing requirements, the continued increase in TB incidence, and the work programme in hand to implement the recommendations in the Krebs report.