HC Deb 30 November 1988 vol 142 cc238-9W
Sir Richard Body

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will amend the existing regulations to limit the areas where it is necessary to treat cattle against warble fly.

Mr. Donald Thompson

No infected areas requiring compulsory treatment for warble fly were declared in either 1987 or 1988. Where, however, a clinical case of warble fly is identified, the relevant herd owner and those within a 3 km radius are required to treat their cattle.

Sir Richard Body

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list the countries in which there has been no incidence of warble fly being reported for the last three years.

Mr. Donald Thompson

In the years 1986 to 1988 (up to 25 November 1988) there have been no reports of warble fly in the following counties of Great Britain:

  • Bedford
  • Berkshire
  • Borders
  • Buckinghamshire
  • Cambridgeshire
  • Central
  • Cheshire
  • Cleveland
  • Clwyd
  • Cumbria
  • Dumfries and Galloway
  • Durham
  • Dyfed
  • East Sussex
  • Essex
  • Fife
  • Gloucestershire
  • Grampian
  • Greater London
  • Greater Manchester
  • Gwent
  • Gwynedd
  • Hampshire
  • Hertfordshire
  • Highland
  • Humberside
  • Isle of Wight
  • Isles of Scilly
  • Lancashire
  • 239
  • Leicestershire
  • Lincolnshire
  • Lothian
  • Merseyside
  • Mid Glamorgan
  • Norfolk
  • North Yorkshire
  • Northumberland
  • Nottinghamshire
  • Oxford
  • Powys
  • Shetland and Orkney
  • Shropshire
  • South Glamorgan
  • South Yorkshire
  • Staffordshire
  • Strathclyde
  • Suffolk
  • Surrey
  • Tayside
  • Tyne and Wear
  • Warwickshire
  • West Midlands
  • West Yorkshire

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