§ Lord Mason of Barnsleyasked Her Majesty's Government:
How many outbreaks of foot and mouth disease have taken place since 1900, specifying dates and how long each outbreak lasted. [HL1899]
§ Baroness HaymanThis informaton is not available in electronic form and could be collected only at disproportionate cost.
This information for each of the years concerned should be included in the Chief Veterinary Officer's annual report. The noble Lord may wish to refer to a graph taken from a PhD thesis by Rowland Tinline, entitled A simulation study of the 1967–8 foot and mouth epizootic in Great Britain (1972). The graph does not include the single outbreak in 1981 on the Isle of Wight. Details of the PhD thesis are held at the Bristol University, Main Library.