HC Deb 21 May 1998 vol 312 cc487-9W
Mr. Paice

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list by county the total number of herds affected by tuberculosis outbreaks in 1997, separately identifying those where no previous outbreak had been recorded for 10 years. [28029]

Mr. Rooker

[pursuant to his reply, 6 February 1998, c. 818]: I regret that some of the information given in my earlier reply was inaccurate. I am now able to give corrected, final data showing the number of herds confirmed by MAFF Divisional Veterinary Managers to have been affected by tuberculosis in 1997.

The figures include those herds which continued to be affected with confirmed disease from previous years (ie those to which herd restrictions continued to apply during at least part of 1997) and those newly affected in 1997.

I have written to the hon. Member with the additional information which he requested, and copies of this letter have been placed in the Library of the House.

County 1997 total confirmed TB herd breakdowns
Avon 24
Bedfordshire 0
Berkshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Cheshire 1
Cleveland 0
Cornwall 122
Cumbria 0
Derbyshire 3
Devon 114
Dorset 15
Durham 0
East Sussex 4
Essex 1
Gloucestershire 103
Greater London 0
Greater Manchester 0
Hampshire 0
Hereford and Worcester 126
Hertford 0
Humberside 0
Isle of Wight 0
Isles of Scilly 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire
Lincolnshire 0
Merseyside 0
Norfolk 0
North Yorkshire 0
Northamptonshire
Northumberland 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Shropshire 7
Somerset 32
South Yorkshire 0
Staffordshire 29
Suffolk 0
Surrey 0
Tyne and Wear 0
Warwickshire 0
West Midlands 0
West Sussex 0
West Yorkshire 0
Wiltshire 34
England total 617
Clwyd 0
Dyfed 40
Gwent 48
Gwynedd 0
Mid Glamorgan 2
Powys 4
South Glamorgan 0
West Glamorgan 3
Wales total 97
Aberdeenshire 2
Angus 0
Argyll 0
Ayrshire 0
Banffshire 0
Berwickshire 0
Bute 0
Caithness 2

County 1997 total confirmed TB herd breakdowns
Clackmannan 0
Dumbartonshire 1
Dumfriesshire 0
East Lothian 0
Fife 0
Inverness-shire 0
Kincardine 1
Kinross 0
Kirkcudbright 4
Lanarkshire 1
Midlothian 0
Moray 0
Nairn 0
Orkney 0
Peebles 0
Perthshire 1
Renfrew 0
Ross and Cromarty 0
Roxburgh 0
Selkirk 0
Shetland 0
Stirling 0
Sutherland 0
West Lothian 0
Wigtown 3
Scotland total 15