HC Deb 25 July 1991 vol 195 cc784-5W
Dr. David Clark

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list the total number of confirmed cases of BSE in each county or Scottish region at the latest available date in the United Kingdom.

Mr. Gummer

The information up to 19 July 1991 is as follows:

County Cases
England:
Northern
Cleveland 39
Cumbria 608
Durham 112
Humberside 134
Northumberland 136
Tyne and Wear 4
Yorkshire, North 1,164
Yorkshire, South 98
Yorkshire, West 135
Total 2,430
Midlands and Western
Cheshire 904
Derbyshire 506
Herefore and Worcester 595
Lancashire 699
Leicestershire 759
Manchester 33
Merseyside 14
Nottinghamshire 193
Salop 752
Staffordshire 593
West Midlands 18
Warwickshire 328
Total 5,394
Eastern
Bedfordshire 88
Cambridgeshire 110
Essex 143
Hertfordshire 137
Lincolnshire 257
Norfolk 524
Northamptonshire 274
Suffolk 378
Total 1,911
County Cases
South-East
Berkshire 190
Buckinghamshire 285
Hampshire 1,182
Isle of Wight 228
Kent 645
London 18
Oxfordshire 489
Surrey 288
Sussex, East 417
Sussex, West 790
Total 4,532
South-West
Avon 647
Cornwall 2,363
Devon 3,538
Dorset 2,692
Gloucestershire 920
Somerset 2,915
Wiltshire 1,941
Total 15,016
Wales
Clwyd 377
Dyfed 1,377
Mid Glamorgan 77
Glamorgan, South 84
Glamorgan, West 16
Gwent 233
Gwynedd 88
Powys 296
Total 2,548
Scotland:
South
Borders 53
Central 30
Dumfries 207
Lothian 23
Strathclyde 272
North
Fife 62
Grampian 201
Highland 56
Orkney 10
Shetland 3
Tayside 85
Western Isles 1
Total 1,003
Northern Ireland:
Antrim 66
Armagh 18
Down 45
Fermanagh 20
Londonderry 25
Tyrone 41
Total 215

Dr. David Clark

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many BSE carcases have been(a) incinerated and (b) buried in 1991 in England.

Mr. Gummer

In the period January to May 1991 9,593 BSE carcases were incinerated and 306 buried in England.