§ Lord McNairasked Her Majesty's Government:
In which counties of the United Kingdom the main incidence of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy has occurred.
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Lord LucasThe following table shows the total number of cases of BSE confirmed in the United Kingdom as at 12 January 1996, and the number of farms on which they have occurred since November 1986:
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Region and County Farms Cases Northern Cleveland 62 218 Cumbria 1,578 4,916 Durham 306 765 Humberside 245 852 Northumberland 418 1,068 Tyne and Wear 16 52 Yorkshire North 1,668 6,765 Yorkshire South 161 658 Yorkshire West 290 973 Total 4,744 16,267 Midlands and Western Cheshire 1,246 6,345 Derbyshire 770 3,758 Hereford and Worcester 680 2,642 Lancashire 1,226 5,174 Leicestershire 520 3,136 Manchester 68 229 Merseyside 28 121 Nottinghamshire 166 941 Shropshire 1,033 3,868 Staffordshire 1,002 4,010 West Midlands 34 120 Warwickshire 326 1,524 Total 7,099 31,868 Eastern Bedfordshire 69 445 Cambridgeshire 97 497 Essex 136 841 Hertfordshire 124 664 Lincolnshire 236 1,147 Norfolk 412 3,881 Northamptonshire 235 1,305 Suffolk 259 1,935 Total 1,568 10,715 South West Avon 470 2,926 Cornwall 1,810 9,763 Devon 2,676 13,718 Dorset 1,061 9,292 Gloucestershire 607 3,214 Scilly Isles 1 1 Somerset 1,737 12,238 Wiltshire 980 6,960 Total 9,342 58,112
Region and County Farms Cases South East Berkshire 113 809 Buckinghamshire 270 1,357 Hampshire 508 3,871 Isle of Wight 89 712 Kent 280 2,108 London 16 136 Oxfordshire 316 2,185 Surrey 180 1,217 Sussex East 304 1,851 Sussex West 345 3,172 Total 2,421 17,418 Wales Clwyd 708 2,422 Dyfed 2,261 7,620 Glamorgan Mid 77 248 Glamorgan South 78 421 Glamorgan West 54 116 Gwent 295 1,082 Gwynedd 403 663 Powys 973 2,224 Total 4,849 14,796 Scotland-South Borders 220 491 Central 82 219 Dumfries 799 2,216 Lothian 83 207 Strathclyde 776 1,796 Scotland-North Fife 116 332 Grampian 526 1,296 Highland 160 321 Orkney 54 92 Shetland 6 8 Tayside 237 557 Western Isles 1 1 Scottish Total 3,060 7,536 Northern Ireland Antrim 278 455 Armagh 89 118 Down 208 293 Fermanagh 101 146 Londonderry 201 305 Tyrone 251 339 Total 1,128 1,656 Overall total for United Kingdom 34,211 158,368