asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they will give by county the number of cases of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in the United Kingdom that were notified each month since such records were started.
Attached are tables showing the total number of confirmed BSE cases in the United Kingdom since November 1986, as at 12th April 1996.To provide the information in the way requested could only be done at disproportionate cost.
| BSE County Summary (Great Britain); Week Ending Friday 12th April 1996 | |
| Total number of cases confirmed since November 1986 | |
| Region/County | Cases |
| Northern | |
| Cleveland | 221 |
| Cumbria | 5,029 |
| Durham | 785 |
| Humberside | 875 |
| Northumberland | 1,088 |
| Tyne and Wear | 52 |
| Yorkshire North | 6,914 |
| Yorkshire South | 681 |
| Yorkshire West | 999 |
| Total | 16,644 |
| Midlands and Western | |
| Cheshire | 6,456 |
| Derbyshire | 3,807 |
| Hereford and Worcester | 2,678 |
| Lancashire | 5,295 |
| Leicestershire | 3,175 |
| Manchester | 194 |
| Merseyside | 125 |
| Nottinghamshire | 965 |
| Shropshire | 3,960 |
| Staffordshire | 4,094 |
BSE County Summary (Great Britain); Week Ending Friday 12th April 1996
| |
Total number of cases confirmed since November 1986
| |
Region/County
| Cases
|
| West Midlands | 123 |
| Warwickshire | 1,549 |
| Total | 32,421 |
Eastern
| |
| Bedfordshire | 453 |
| Cambridgeshire | 504 |
| Essex | 873 |
| Hertfordshire | 686 |
| Lincolnshire | 1,176 |
| Norfolk | 3,984 |
| Northamptonshire | 1,327 |
| Suffolk | 1,982 |
| Total | 10,985 |
South West
| |
| Avon | 2,975 |
| Cornwall | 9,898 |
| Devon | 13,966 |
| Dorset | 9,407 |
| Gloucestershire | 3,246 |
| Scilly Isles | 1 |
| Somerset | 12,407 |
| Wiltshire | 7,019 |
| Total | 58,919 |
South East
| |
| Berkshire | 828 |
| Buckinghamshire | 1,388 |
| Hampshire | 3,880 |
| Isle of Wight | 795 |
| Kent | 2,137 |
| London | 139 |
| Oxfordshire | 2,226 |
| Surrey | 1,245 |
| Sussex East | 1,882 |
| Sussex West | 3,229 |
| Total | 17,749 |
Wales
| |
| Clwyd | 2,472 |
| Dyfed | 7,735 |
| Glamorgan Mid | 250 |
| Glamorgan South | 426 |
| Glamorgan West | 117 |
| Gwent | 1,104 |
| Gwynedd | 686 |
| Powys | 2,292 |
| Total | 15,082 |
Scotland-South
| |
| Borders | 504 |
| Central | 222 |
| Dumfries | 2,262 |
| Lothian | 212 |
| Strathclyde | 1,816 |
Scotland-North
| |
| Fife | 334 |
| Grampian | 1,323 |
| Highland | 328 |
| Orkney | 96 |
BSE County Summary (Great Britain); Week Ending Friday 12th April 1996
| |
Total number of cases confirmed since November 1986
| |
Region/County
| Cases
|
| Shetland | 10 |
| Tayside | 565 |
| Western Isles | 1 |
| Scottish Total | 7,673 |
| Overall total for Great Britain | 159,473 |
Note:
Cases confirmed in a particular month will have a date of clinical onset of disease and date of report prior to that month. In addition, in counties where incidence is low, the number of confirmed cases may show a reduction when purchased cases are reallocated to other premises in a different county.
Northern Ireland County Summary: Week Ending 12th April 1996
| |
Total number of cases confirmed since 29th November 1988
| |
County
| Cases
|
| Antrim | 466 |
| Armagh | 120 |
| Down | 305 |
| Fermanagh | 151 |
| Londonderry | 308 |
| Tyrone | 348 |