§ Dr. David ClarkTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will give the number of man hours spent in ADAS on(a) charged statutory work, (b) chargeable advice, (c) non-chargeable advice and (d) non-chargeable statutory work for each year since 1986; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. GummerADAS began charging for services generally on 1 April 1987. Information for the years 1986–87 and 1987–88 is not available in the form requested.
Information for the years 1988–89 to 1990–91 is as follows:
Worcester centre will close when the new centre in Warwickshire is opened in 1993. The Reading centre will close when the Winchester centre is enhanced and the new Warwickshire centre is opened in 1993.
§ Dr. David ClarkTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list the counties which fall into each currently operating veterinary investigation centres catchment area; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. GummerThe counties and areas covered by the national network of veterinary investigation centres in England and Wales are generally defined by county boundaries but there is however a degree of flexibility to 185W meet local requirements. The specific counties and other areas which form the catchment areas for the currently operating veterinary investigation centres in England and Wales are:
Bristol (Langford) VIC:
Avon, Somerset, Dorset and parts of Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Gwent.Cambridge VIC:
Essex, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and parts of Greater London, Suffolk, Northamptonshire and Hertfordshire.Lincoln VIC:
North Humberside, South Humberside, Lincolnshire and parts of Nottinghamshire, South Yorkshire, Leicestershire and West Yorkshire.Newcastle VIC:
Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, County Durham and Cleveland.Norwich VIC:
Norfolk and parts of Suffolk.Penrith VIC:
Cumbria and parts of North Lancashire, Northumberland and West Yorkshire.Preston (Barton Hall) VIC:
Lancashire, Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Isle of Man and parts of Yorkshire, Cumbria, Staffordshire and Derbyshire.Reading VIC:
Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Surrey, Guernsey, Jersey and parts of Wiltshire, Northamptonshire, Gloucestershire, Middlesex, Greater London and Hertfordshire.Shrewsbury VIC:
Shropshire, Staffordshire, West Midlands Metropolitan County and parts of Cheshire, Powys, Clwyd, Warwickshire and Derbyshire.Starcross VIC:
Devon and parts of Cornwall, Somerset and Dorset.Sutton Bonington VIC:
Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire and parts of Staffordshire, South Yorkshire, Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire.Thirsk VIC:
North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and parts or South Yorkshire, North Humberside, Cleveland and County Durham.Truro (Polwhele) VIC:
Cornwall, Isle of Scilly and parts of Devon.Winchester VIC:
Hampshire, Isle of Wight, West Sussex and parts of Dorset, Wiltshire and Surrey.Worcester VIC:
Hereford and Worcester, Warwickshire and parts of Gwent, Gloucestershire and West Midlands.Wye VIC:
Kent, East Sussex and parts of Greater London, Surrey and West Sussex.Aberystwyth VIC:
Powys and parts of Dyfed and Gwynedd.Bangor VIC:
186WGwynedd and Clywd.Carmarthen VIC:
Mid Glamorgan, West Glamorgan, South Glamorgan and parts of Dyfed, Powys and Gwent.