§ Mr. LidingtonTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement about the treaty basis on which the European Commission purports to exercise the power to impose a world-wide ban on the export of British beef. [23455]
§ Mrs. Browning[holding answer 29 March 1996): The ban has been imposed on the basis of EC directives 90/425/EEC—in particular, article 10(4)—and 89/662/EEC—in particular, article 9—governing intra-community veterinary checks. These directives are based on article 43 of the treaty of Rome.
§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what is the total number of cases of BSE reported in the United Kingdom in each county or equivalent local authority area. [24416]
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§ Mrs. BrowningAttached are tables showing the total number of confirmed BSE cases in the United Kingdom by county since November 1986, as at 12 April 1996.
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BSE county summary (Great Britain); week ending Friday 12 April 1996 Total number of cases confirmed since November 1986 Region County Cases Northern Cleveland 221 Cumbria 5,029 Durham 785 Humberside 875 Northumberland 1,088 Tyne and Wear 52 Yorkshire north 6,914 Yorkshire south 681 Yorkshire west 999 Total 16,644 Midlands and Western Cheshire 6,456 Derbyshire 3,807 Hereford and Worcester 2,678 Lancashire 5,295 Leicestershire 3,175 Manchester 194 Merseyside 125 Nottinghamshire 965 Shropshire 3,960 Staffordshire 4,094 West Midlands 123 Warwickshire 1,549 Total 32,421 Eastern Bedfordshire 453 Cambridgeshire 504 Essex 873 Hertfordshire 686 Lincolnshire 1,176 Norfolk 3,984 Northamptonshire 1,327 Suffolk 1,982 Total 10,985 South west Avon 2,975 Cornwall 9,898 Devon 13,966 Dorset 9,407 Gloucestershire 3,246 Scilly Isles 1 Somerset 12,407 Wiltshire 7,019 Total 58,919 South east Berkshire 828 Buckinghamshire 1,388 Hampshire 3,880 Isle of Wight 795 Kent 2,137 London 139 Oxfordshire 2,226 Surrey 1,245 Sussex east 1,882 Sussex west 3,229 Total 17,749 Wales Clwyd 2,472 Dyfed 7,735 Glamorgan mid 250 Glamorgan south 426 Glamorgan west 117
BSE county summary (Great Britain); week ending Friday 12 April 1996 Total number of cases confirmed since November 1986 Region County Cases Gwent 1,104 Gwynedd 686 Powys 2,292 Total 15,082 Scotland-south Borders 504 Central 222 Dumfries 2,262 Lothian 212 Strathclyde 1,816 Scotland-north Fife 334 Grampian 1,323 Highland 328 Orkney 96 Shetland 10 Tayside 565 Western Isles 1 Scottish total 7,673 Overall total for Great Britain 159,473 Cases confirmed in a particular month will have a date of clinical onset of disease and date of report prior to that month. In addition, in counties where incidence is low, the number of confirmed cases may show a reduction when purchased cases are reallocated to other premises in a different county.
Northern Ireland county summary: week ending 12 April 1996 Total number of cases confirmed since 29 November 1988 County Cases Antrim 466 Armagh 120 Down 305 Fermanagh 151 Londonderry 308 Tyrone 348