§ Mr. Wigleyasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will publish figures showing the incidence of bovine tuberculosis in each English county for every year since 1981.
§ Mrs. FennerThe number of new herds with bovine tuberculosis reactors in each English county for each year 1981–85 is shown in the table.
County 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 Avon 10 20 18 24 15 Bedfordshire — — — — — Buckinghamshire — — — — 1 Cambridgeshire — — — — 1 Cheshire — 1 6 2 8 Cleveland — — — — — Cornwall 75 60 67 54 54 Cumbria 1 3 4 4 7 Derbyshire — — 1 1 — Devon 37 28 28 42 28 Dorset 10 3 15 21 27 Durham — 1 — — 1 East Sussex 2 3 — 1 2 Essex — — — 1 1 Gloucestershire 26 21 19 20 19 Greater Manchester — — 1 — 1 Greater London — — — — — Hampshire — — — — 4 Humberside — — 2 1 1 Hereford and Worcester — 7 1 3 9 Hertfordshire — — — — — Isle of Wight — — — — 1 Kent 1 — — — 2 Lancashire 4 2 4 3 6 Leicestershire 2 — — — — Lincolnshire — — 1 — 1 Merseyside — — 1 — 1 Norfolk — — — — 1 Northamptonshire 1 2 — 3 1 Northumberland 5 4 1 1 — North Yorkshire 3 4 1 3 4 Nottinghamshire 2 — — — 1 Oxfordshire and Berkshire — — 1 — 1 Shropshire 1 6 3 3 5 Somerset — 7 3 9 12 South Yorkshire — 1 — — 2 Staffordshire 6 10 7 8 11 Suffolk 2 — — — — Surrey 1 1 2 2 — Tyne & Wear — — — — — Warwickshire 1 1 3 1 2 West Midlands — 1 1 1 1 West Sussex 1 2 5 — 3 West Yorkshire 1 — — — 2 Wiltshire 31 17 27 22 26 Total (England) 223 205 222 230 262