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Mr. Ron Davies
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list the total number of individual animals by species in which BSE has been confirmed in each of (a) 1988, (b) 1989, (c) 1990 and (d) 1991.
Mr. Maclean
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy is a disease of cattle. The total number of cases confirmed, by date of clinical onset in the requested years is as follows:
| Distribution of farmers and workers by county | |||||
| County | Principal farmers or partners | Other partners or directors | Spouses of farmers/partners or directors | All other workers | Total |
| Avon | 1,602 | 588 | 529 | 3,576 | 6,295 |
| Bedfordshire | 961 | 443 | 341 | 1,962 | 3,707 |
| Berkshire | 619 | 216 | 206 | 1,475 | 2,516 |
| Buckinghamshire | 1,479 | 600 | 460 | 2,216 | 4,755 |
| Cambridgeshire | 2,842 | 1,279 | 929 | 6,150 | 11,200 |
| Cheshire | 3,567 | 1,328 | 1,378 | 5,442 | 11,715 |
| Cleveland | 355 | 164 | 116 | 440 | 1,075 |
| Cornwall | 5,757 | 1,775 | 2,379 | 5,495 | 15,406 |
| Cumbria | 5,288 | 2,255 | 2,378 | 4,712 | 14,633 |
| Derbyshire | 3,057 | 1,186 | 1,078 | 3,298 | 8,619 |
| Devon | 9,129 | 2,852 | 3,921 | 9,106 | 25,008 |
| Dorset | 2,402 | 934 | 985 | 4,123 | 8,444 |
| Durham | 1,838 | 739 | 666 | 1,816 | 5,059 |
| East Sussex | 1,798 | 601 | 642 | 3,879 | 6,920 |
(a) 3,038 (b) 7,614 (c) 14,332 (d) 19,792 (provisional)