HC Deb 22 March 1989 vol 149 cc612-3W
Mr. Ron Davies

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will publish a table showing the cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy confirmed in each county of the United Kingdom for the four week period ended 17 March.

Mr. Donald Thompson

In the four-week period to 17 March, 643 cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy were confirmed in the following counties and regions of Great Britain:

County Confirmed cases
Avon 14
Bedfordshire 3
Berkshire 2
Buckinghamshire 4
Cambridgeshire 3
Central 1
Cheshire 5
Cleveland 1
Clwyd 5
Cornwall 48
Cumbria 6
Derbyshire 4
Devon 73
Dorset 82
Dumfries 1
Durham 2
Dyfed 29
Essex 1
Glamorgan Mid 1
Glamorgan South 3
County Confirmed cases
Gloucestershire 17
Grampian 2
Gwent 8
Hampshire 49
Hereford and Worcester 11
Hertfordshire 1
Highland 3
Humberside 2
Isle of Wight 3
Kent 27
Lancashire 16
Leicestershire 12
Lincolnshire 6
Manchester 1
Merseyside 2
Norfolk 12
Northants 2
Northumberland 5
Nottinghamshire 3
Oxon 15
Powys 2
Salop 5
Somerset 39
Staffordshire 6
Strathclyde 4
Suffolk 9
Surrey 7
Sussex East 7
Sussex West 15
Warwickshire 3
Wiltshire 39
Yorkshire North 21
Yorkshire South 1

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