HC Deb 02 July 1999 vol 334 cc303-5W
Mr. Paice

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list by county the number of cattle herds with confirmed bovine tuberculosis breakdowns during 1998; how many were ongoing from 1997; and how many were on holdings with no previous breakdowns for 10 years. [87687]

Mr. Rooker

There were 740 new confirmed TB incidents in cattle herds in GB during 1998. The table shows this figure on a county basis. In the time available it has not been possible to identify either those herds in which no previous outbreak of TB has been recorded for 10 years, or how many were ongoing from 1997, but I will write to the hon. Member with the information when it is available.

County New Confirmed 1997 TB incidents 1998
Avon 10 25
Bedfordshire 0 0
Berkshire 0 0
Buckinghamshire 0 0
Cambridgeshire 0 0
Cheshire 0 2
Cleveland 0 0
Cornwall 74 139
Cumbria 0 1
Derbyshire 1 6
Devon 82 99
Dorset 12 8
Durham 0 0
East Sussex 4 1
Essex 1 0
Gloucestershire 85 132
Greater London 0 0
Greater Manchester 0 0
Hampshire 0 0
Hereford and Worcester 86 116
Hertfordshire 0 1
Humberside 0 0
Isle of Wight 0 0
Isle of Scilly 0 0
Kent 0 0
Lancashire 0 3
Leicestershire 0 1
Lincolnshire 0 1
Merseyside 0 0
Norfolk 0 0
North Yorkshire 0 0
Northamptonshire 0 0
Northumberland 0 2
Nottinghamshire 0 1
Oxfordshire 0 4
Shropshire 7 5
Somerset 27 27
South Yorkshire 0 0
Staffordshire 24 30
Suffolk 0 1
Surrey 0 0
Tyne and Wear 0 0
Warwickshire 0 1
West Midlands 0 1
West Sussex 0 0
West Yorkshire 0 1
Wiltshire 30 34
England total 443 642
Clwyd 0 0
Dyfed 24 53
Gwent 33 25
Gwynedd 0 1
Mid Glamorgen 2 1
Powys 1 9
South Glamorgan 0 1
West Glamorgan 2 4
Wales total 62 94

County New confirmed 1997 TB incidents 1998
Aberdeenshire 2 1
Angus 0 0
Argyll 0 0
Ayrshire 0 1
Banffshire 0 0
Berwickshire 0 0
Bute 0 0
Caithness 2 0
Clackmannan 0 0
Dumbartonshire 1 0
Dumfriesshire 0 0
East Lothian 0 0
Fife 0 0
Inverness-shire 0 0
Kincardine 1 0
Kinross 0 0
Kircudbright 1 0
Lanarkshire 1 0
Midlothian 0 0
Moray 0 0
Nairn 0 0
Orkney 0 0
Peebles 0 0
Perthshire 1 0
Renfrew 0 0
Ross and Cromarty 0 0
Roxburgh 0 0
Selkirk 0 0
Shetland 0 0
Stirling 0 1
Sutherland 0 0
West Lothian 0 0
Wigtown 1 1
Scotland total 10 4
Great Britain total 515 740