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Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy

Volume 205: debated on Tuesday 10 March 1992

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To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will give the numbers of confirmed cases of BSE in each county in England in 1992, to the latest available date.

For the reasons given in the answer to the hon. Member on 23 May 1991, Official Report, column 559, these figures are currently unavailable.

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what information is available concerning the range of species of mammals to which bovine spongiform encephalopathy has not been transferred by experimental injection.

In my answer to the hon. Member for Sherwood (Mr. Stewart) on 4 March I gave details of the species which had been experimentally infected with BSE. No other species has succumbed to experimental infection.