HC Deb 06 July 1988 vol 136 cc612-3W
Dr. David Clark

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if, further to his answer of 27 June, he will give a breakdown by county of where the 593 blue marked sheep were remonitored between 28 September 1987 and 1 June 1988.

Mr. Donald Thompson

Between 28 September 1987 and 1 June 1988 blue-marked sheep could be sent for slaughter only if remonitoring had revealed them to present no danger to public health and they had been identified as eligible for slaughter by a distinctive Ministry ear-tag. Of the 593 sheep remonitored in England in this period, 561 were remonitored in Cumbria, where the highest levels of radioactivity would be expected to be found. and 32 in Lancashire.