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Mr. Nigel Evans
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many cases of BSE were confirmed in England for each quarter since 1987.
Mr. Soames
There were 827 cases of BSE confirmed in England before the disease become notifiable on 21 June 1988. Since then the number of confirmed cases in England by date of report to the Ministry for each quarter is as follows:
| Number | |
| 1988 | |
| 1Quarter 3 | 899 |
| Quarter 4 | 1,105 |
| 1989 | |
| Quarter 1 | 1,448 |
| Quarter 2 | 1,334 |
| Quarter 3 | 1,630 |
| Quarter 4 | 2,010 |
| 1990 | |
| Quarter 1 | 3,272 |
| Quarter 2 | 2,941 |
| Quarter 3 | 2,903 |
| Quarter 4 | 3,496 |
| 1991 | |
| Quarter 1 | 4,694 |
| Quarter 2 | 4,514 |
| Quarter 3 | 5,700 |
| Quarter 4 | 7,077 |
| 1992 | |
| Quarter 1 | 8,419 |
| Quarter 2 | 6,822 |
| Quarter 3 | 7,425 |
| Quarter 4 | 8,301 |
| 1993 | |
| Quarter 1 | 27,588 |
| 1 21 June 1988 to 30 September 1988. | |
| 2 This figure is incomplete as not all suspects reported in this quarter have been slaughtered or confirmed. | |