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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.