HC Deb 04 April 1990 vol 170 cc627-8W
Dr. David Clark

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will give the updated total figures for confirmed cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in England and Wales since records were first kept.

Mr. Gummer

Since November 1986, when BSE was first identified, until 23 March 1990, the latest date for which figures are available, 10,409 cases have been confirmed in England and 764 cases in Wales.

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