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Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy

Volume 196: debated on Thursday 17 October 1991

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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.

The information up to 11 October 1991 is as follows:

CountyCases
England:
Northern
Cleveland45
Cumbria781
Durham133
Humberside167
Northumberland151
Tyne and Wear5
North Yorkshire1,380
South Yorkshire118
West Yorkshire178
Total2,958
Midlands and Western
Cheshire1,130
Derbyshire583
Herefordshire and Worcestershire674
Lancashire857
Leicestershire865
Manchester35
Merseyside19
Nottinghamshire215
Shropshire854
Staffordshire724
West Midlands21
Warwickshire375
Total6,352
Eastern
Bedfordshire101
Cambridge128
Essex162
Hertfordshire147
Lincolnshire294
Norfolk640
Northamptonshire325
Suffolk422
Total2,219
South-East
Berkshire220
Buckinghamshire328
Hampshire1,305
Isle of Wight256
Kent722
London21
Oxfordshire562
Surrey319
East Sussex491
West Sussex884
Total5,108
South-West
Avon783
Cornwall2,818
Devon4,019
Dorset3,092
Gloucestershire1,041
Somerset3,419
Wiltshire2,231
Total17,403
Wales:
Clwyd446
Dyfed1,669
CountyCases
Mid Glamorgan80
South Glamorgan95
West Glamorgan17
Gwent266
Gwynedd101
Powys338
Total3,012
Scotland:
South
Borders64
Central34
Dumfries256
Lothian25
Strathclyde315
North
Fife75
Grampian227
Highland62
Orkney11
Shetland3
Tayside100
Western Isles1
Total1,173
Northern Ireland:
Antrim79
Armagh19
Down50
Fermanagh24
Londonderry32
Tyrone49
Total253
England and Wales
19801990
CountyTotal area (000 hectares)Percentage of total area rentedArea of land rented (000 hectares)Total area (000 hectares)Percentage of total area rentedArea of land rented (000 hectares)
Cleveland31·743·913·930·236·811·1
Cumbria465·445·3210·9458·739·2179·6
Durham159·552·082·9155·742·966·7
Northumberland383·359·9229·7381·855·5211·8
Tyne and Wear18·362·211·416·651·68·6
Humberside292·848·6142·3287·640·7117·1
North Yorkshire628·748·5304·7629·841·6261·7
South Yorkshire83·152·743·881·545·937·4
West Yorkshire99·746·746·6101·340·841·3
Derbyshire187·047·989·5182·543·178·7
Leicestershire198·745·991·2197·140·179·0
Lincolnshire514·552·1268·2517·845·6236·0
Northamptonshire191·845·086·4188·336·368·4
Nottinghamshire151·443·265·4150·836·855·4
Cambridgeshire290·551·1148·5285·945·2129·1
Norfolk419·346·1193·3421·839·0164·6
Suffolk303·731·395·2303·226·179·3
Bedfordshire92·044·440·891·137·934·5
Berkshire75·438·929·473·027·720·2
Buckinghamshire134·240·854·7129·633·443·3
East Sussex117·335·341·4115·129·934·4
Essex269·937·9102·4267·133·990·6
Greater London16·959·110·015·552·98·2
Hampshire227·241·995·1229·335·781·9
Hertfordshire106·344·447·2106·237·439·7
Isle of Wight26·544·011·726·226·67·0
Kent260·636·795·7253·733·284·3
Oxfordshire208·841·686·9205·336·073·8
Surrey70·936·325·869·930·321·2
West Sussex128·447·360·7127·038·048·3
Avon88·541·136·486·335·230·4
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly280·638·8108·9275·832·589·6

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.

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 column 559.

MonthNumber
January 19911,675
February 19911,632
March 19911,797