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Dr. David Clark
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.
Mr. Gummer
The information up to 11 October 1991 is as follows:
County | Cases |
England: | |
Northern | |
Cleveland | 45 |
Cumbria | 781 |
Durham | 133 |
Humberside | 167 |
Northumberland | 151 |
Tyne and Wear | 5 |
North Yorkshire | 1,380 |
South Yorkshire | 118 |
West Yorkshire | 178 |
Total | 2,958 |
Midlands and Western | |
Cheshire | 1,130 |
Derbyshire | 583 |
Herefordshire and Worcestershire | 674 |
Lancashire | 857 |
Leicestershire | 865 |
Manchester | 35 |
Merseyside | 19 |
Nottinghamshire | 215 |
Shropshire | 854 |
Staffordshire | 724 |
West Midlands | 21 |
Warwickshire | 375 |
Total | 6,352 |
Eastern | |
Bedfordshire | 101 |
Cambridge | 128 |
Essex | 162 |
Hertfordshire | 147 |
Lincolnshire | 294 |
Norfolk | 640 |
Northamptonshire | 325 |
Suffolk | 422 |
Total | 2,219 |
South-East | |
Berkshire | 220 |
Buckinghamshire | 328 |
Hampshire | 1,305 |
Isle of Wight | 256 |
Kent | 722 |
London | 21 |
Oxfordshire | 562 |
Surrey | 319 |
East Sussex | 491 |
West Sussex | 884 |
Total | 5,108 |
South-West | |
Avon | 783 |
Cornwall | 2,818 |
Devon | 4,019 |
Dorset | 3,092 |
Gloucestershire | 1,041 |
Somerset | 3,419 |
Wiltshire | 2,231 |
Total | 17,403 |
Wales: | |
Clwyd | 446 |
Dyfed | 1,669 |
County | Cases |
Mid Glamorgan | 80 |
South Glamorgan | 95 |
West Glamorgan | 17 |
Gwent | 266 |
Gwynedd | 101 |
Powys | 338 |
Total | 3,012 |
Scotland: | |
South | |
Borders | 64 |
Central | 34 |
Dumfries | 256 |
Lothian | 25 |
Strathclyde | 315 |
North | |
Fife | 75 |
Grampian | 227 |
Highland | 62 |
Orkney | 11 |
Shetland | 3 |
Tayside | 100 |
Western Isles | 1 |
Total | 1,173 |
Northern Ireland: | |
Antrim | 79 |
Armagh | 19 |
Down | 50 |
Fermanagh | 24 |
Londonderry | 32 |
Tyrone | 49 |
Total | 253 |
England and Wales | ||||||
1980 | 1990 | |||||
County | Total area (000 hectares) | Percentage of total area rented | Area of land rented (000 hectares) | Total area (000 hectares) | Percentage of total area rented | Area of land rented (000 hectares) |
Cleveland | 31·7 | 43·9 | 13·9 | 30·2 | 36·8 | 11·1 |
Cumbria | 465·4 | 45·3 | 210·9 | 458·7 | 39·2 | 179·6 |
Durham | 159·5 | 52·0 | 82·9 | 155·7 | 42·9 | 66·7 |
Northumberland | 383·3 | 59·9 | 229·7 | 381·8 | 55·5 | 211·8 |
Tyne and Wear | 18·3 | 62·2 | 11·4 | 16·6 | 51·6 | 8·6 |
Humberside | 292·8 | 48·6 | 142·3 | 287·6 | 40·7 | 117·1 |
North Yorkshire | 628·7 | 48·5 | 304·7 | 629·8 | 41·6 | 261·7 |
South Yorkshire | 83·1 | 52·7 | 43·8 | 81·5 | 45·9 | 37·4 |
West Yorkshire | 99·7 | 46·7 | 46·6 | 101·3 | 40·8 | 41·3 |
Derbyshire | 187·0 | 47·9 | 89·5 | 182·5 | 43·1 | 78·7 |
Leicestershire | 198·7 | 45·9 | 91·2 | 197·1 | 40·1 | 79·0 |
Lincolnshire | 514·5 | 52·1 | 268·2 | 517·8 | 45·6 | 236·0 |
Northamptonshire | 191·8 | 45·0 | 86·4 | 188·3 | 36·3 | 68·4 |
Nottinghamshire | 151·4 | 43·2 | 65·4 | 150·8 | 36·8 | 55·4 |
Cambridgeshire | 290·5 | 51·1 | 148·5 | 285·9 | 45·2 | 129·1 |
Norfolk | 419·3 | 46·1 | 193·3 | 421·8 | 39·0 | 164·6 |
Suffolk | 303·7 | 31·3 | 95·2 | 303·2 | 26·1 | 79·3 |
Bedfordshire | 92·0 | 44·4 | 40·8 | 91·1 | 37·9 | 34·5 |
Berkshire | 75·4 | 38·9 | 29·4 | 73·0 | 27·7 | 20·2 |
Buckinghamshire | 134·2 | 40·8 | 54·7 | 129·6 | 33·4 | 43·3 |
East Sussex | 117·3 | 35·3 | 41·4 | 115·1 | 29·9 | 34·4 |
Essex | 269·9 | 37·9 | 102·4 | 267·1 | 33·9 | 90·6 |
Greater London | 16·9 | 59·1 | 10·0 | 15·5 | 52·9 | 8·2 |
Hampshire | 227·2 | 41·9 | 95·1 | 229·3 | 35·7 | 81·9 |
Hertfordshire | 106·3 | 44·4 | 47·2 | 106·2 | 37·4 | 39·7 |
Isle of Wight | 26·5 | 44·0 | 11·7 | 26·2 | 26·6 | 7·0 |
Kent | 260·6 | 36·7 | 95·7 | 253·7 | 33·2 | 84·3 |
Oxfordshire | 208·8 | 41·6 | 86·9 | 205·3 | 36·0 | 73·8 |
Surrey | 70·9 | 36·3 | 25·8 | 69·9 | 30·3 | 21·2 |
West Sussex | 128·4 | 47·3 | 60·7 | 127·0 | 38·0 | 48·3 |
Avon | 88·5 | 41·1 | 36·4 | 86·3 | 35·2 | 30·4 |
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly | 280·6 | 38·8 | 108·9 | 275·8 | 32·5 | 89·6 |
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 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.
Month | Number |
January 1991 | 1,675 |
February 1991 | 1,632 |
March 1991 | 1,797 |