§ Lord Gladwin of Cleeasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they will list the number of cases of scrapie which have been confirmed since it became a notifiable disease.
§ The Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Lord Donoughue)The following table shows the number of cases which have been confirmed as positive since January 1993, when scrapie became a notifiable disease.
Confirmed positive 1993 328 1994 235 1995 254 1996 453 19971 213 1 Until end of May. Cases are greater in each year than those previously reported on 19 February 1997 (House of Commons, Official Report, col. 635) owing to the inclusion of cases from research studies which have not been previously reported.