To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will give the numbers of confirmed cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in each county in Northern Ireland in 1992, to the latest available date.

As of 5 March 1992 the information is as follows:

County	Numbers
Antrim	15
Armagh	2
Down	10
Fermanagh	0
Londonderry	7
Tyrone	5
Total	39

There are 1·5 million cattle in Northern Ireland and there have been a total of 342 confirmed cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in Northern Ireland to date (5 March 1992).