HC Deb 17 October 1991 vol 196 cc237-40W
Dr. David Clark

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will give the total number of BSE cases confirmed in each calendar month in 1991.

Mr. Gummer

The information up to 11 October 1991 is as follows:

County Cases
England:
Northern
Cleveland 45
Cumbria 781
Durham 133
Humberside 167
Northumberland 151
Tyne and Wear 5
North Yorkshire 1,380
South Yorkshire 118
West Yorkshire 178
Total 2,958
Midlands and Western
Cheshire 1,130
Derbyshire 583
Herefordshire and Worcestershire 674
Lancashire 857
Leicestershire 865
Manchester 35
Merseyside 19
Nottinghamshire 215
Shropshire 854
Staffordshire 724
West Midlands 21
Warwickshire 375
Total 6,352
Eastern
Bedfordshire 101
Cambridge 128
Essex 162
Hertfordshire 147
Lincolnshire 294
Norfolk 640
Northamptonshire 325
Suffolk 422
Total 2,219
South-East
Berkshire 220
Buckinghamshire 328
Hampshire 1,305
Isle of Wight 256
Kent 722
London 21
Oxfordshire 562
Surrey 319
East Sussex 491
West Sussex 884
Total 5,108
South-West
Avon 783
Cornwall 2,818
Devon 4,019
Dorset 3,092
Gloucestershire 1,041
Somerset 3,419
Wiltshire 2,231
Total 17,403
Wales:
Clwyd 446
Dyfed 1,669
County Cases
Mid Glamorgan 80
South Glamorgan 95
West Glamorgan 17
Gwent 266
Gwynedd 101
Powys 338
Total 3,012
Scotland:
South
Borders 64
Central 34
Dumfries 256
Lothian 25
Strathclyde 315
North
Fife 75
Grampian 227
Highland 62
Orkney 11
Shetland 3
Tayside 100
Western Isles 1
Total 1,173
Northern Ireland:
Antrim 79
Armagh 19
Down 50
Fermanagh 24
Londonderry 32
Tyrone 49
Total 253
England and Wales
1980 1990
County Total area (000 hectares) Percentage of total area rented Area of land rented (000 hectares) Total area (000 hectares) Percentage of total area rented Area of land rented (000 hectares)
Cleveland 31.7 43.9 13.9 30.2 36.8 11.1
Cumbria 465.4 45.3 210.9 458.7 39.2 179.6
Durham 159.5 52.0 82.9 155.7 42.9 66.7
Northumberland 383.3 59.9 229.7 381.8 55.5 211.8
Tyne and Wear 18.3 62.2 11.4 16.6 51.6 8.6
Humberside 292.8 48.6 142.3 287.6 40.7 117.1
North Yorkshire 628.7 48.5 304.7 629.8 41.6 261.7
South Yorkshire 83.1 52.7 43.8 81.5 45.9 37.4
West Yorkshire 99.7 46.7 46.6 101.3 40.8 41.3
Derbyshire 187.0 47.9 89.5 182.5 43.1 78.7
Leicestershire 198.7 45.9 91.2 197.1 40.1 79.0
Lincolnshire 514.5 52.1 268.2 517.8 45.6 236.0
Northamptonshire 191.8 45.0 86.4 188.3 36.3 68.4
Nottinghamshire 151.4 43.2 65.4 150.8 36.8 55.4
Cambridgeshire 290.5 51.1 148.5 285.9 45.2 129.1
Norfolk 419.3 46.1 193.3 421.8 39.0 164.6
Suffolk 303.7 31.3 95.2 303.2 26.1 79.3
Bedfordshire 92.0 44.4 40.8 91.1 37.9 34.5
Berkshire 75.4 38.9 29.4 73.0 27.7 20.2
Buckinghamshire 134.2 40.8 54.7 129.6 33.4 43.3
East Sussex 117.3 35.3 41.4 115.1 29.9 34.4
Essex 269.9 37.9 102.4 267.1 33.9 90.6
Greater London 16.9 59.1 10.0 15.5 52.9 8.2
Hampshire 227.2 41.9 95.1 229.3 35.7 81.9
Hertfordshire 106.3 44.4 47.2 106.2 37.4 39.7
Isle of Wight 26.5 44.0 11.7 26.2 26.6 7.0
Kent 260.6 36.7 95.7 253.7 33.2 84.3
Oxfordshire 208.8 41.6 86.9 205.3 36.0 73.8
Surrey 70.9 36.3 25.8 69.9 30.3 21.2
West Sussex 128.4 47.3 60.7 127.0 38.0 48.3
Avon 88.5 41.1 36.4 86.3 35.2 30.4
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 280.6 38.8 108.9 275.8 32.5 89.6

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 number of confirmed cases of BSE in the United Kingdom listed by month of onset of clinical signs from January 1991 to March 1991 is as follows. More recent information is not available for the reason given in my reply to the hon. Member on 23 May 1991 at column559.

Month Number
January 1991 1,675
February 1991 1,632
March 1991 1,797

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