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Over-30-Months Scheme

Mr. Breed: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many (a) BSE cases and (b) slaughtered animals under the over- 30-months scheme there were, broken down by (i) constituency and (ii) local authority in each year since 1990. [24902]

Mr. Morley: The information is as follows:

(a) It is not possible to provide the information in the format requested, as data are not collected by constituency or local authority area. However, information is available by county as follows:

Number of confirmed cases of BSE, by year of confirmation for each county in Great Britain 1990–14 December 2001

County	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001
Avon	257	474	643	607	391	285	210	106	52	40	22	10
Bedfordshire	37	67	93	96	78	45	22	13	11	3	2	2
Berkshire	58	104	178	157	126	107	54	54	22	19	9	6
Borders	19	54	100	154	101	51	25	3	10	2	3	2
Buckinghamshire	128	180	254	332	280	122	94	57	27	45	17	19
Cambridge	49	63	91	133	91	54	33	20	18	13	8	2
Central	9	17	37	67	54	23	5	6	3	1	1	2
Cheshire	366	903	1,519	1,560	1,144	694	339	184	110	89	34	29
Cleveland	21	23	42	58	36	30	20	15	9	5	9	4
Clwyd	132	353	534	623	439	261	117	81	48	58	21	15
Cornwall	834	1,679	2,458	2,124	1,181	688	387	194	130	123	81	45
Cumbria	237	595	1,153	1,328	910	534	344	182	111	75	40	21
Derbyshire	202	386	880	940	733	486	263	103	75	69	28	13
Devon	1,208	2,306	3,253	2,906	1,870	1,055	640	397	268	204	98	65
Dorset	1,048	1,655	2,061	1,824	1,199	725	423	271	206	136	66	37
Dumfries	85	203	518	671	463	233	112	49	27	16	9	13
Durham	54	71	164	171	159	117	60	40	23	13	10	4
Dyfed	550	1,145	1,863	1,905	1,214	655	293	131	94	49	36	25
Essex	53	70	162	196	184	129	73	39	14	9	7	7
Fife	37	34	55	105	65	26	6	3	3	—	—	—
Mid Glamorgan	34	36	45	51	37	30	12	6	6	6	3	—
South Glamorgan	22	44	110	106	65	35	10	9	7	1	2	2
West Glamorgan	8	8	28	36	17	15	3	5	3	2	1	—
Gloucestershire	346	538	697	677	473	258	167	108	71	73	32	26
Grampian	95	118	268	397	230	141	78	41	13	10	11	15
Gwent	85	143	234	258	160	119	58	39	24	21	5	3
Gwynedd	29	69	154	184	120	73	44	22	12	5	2	9
Hampshire	450	591	714	730	616	297	198	87	79	41	36	21
Herefordshire/Worcestershire	233	349	547	645	426	269	139	109	70	68	42	15
Hertfordshire	67	62	105	160	130	105	60	31	15	21	7	6
Highland	22	35	60	89	66	32	15	10	1	3	4	3
Humberside	71	98	137	214	163	137	78	32	38	25	20	16
Isle of Wight	92	150	144	136	117	62	30	10	9	6	12	4
Kent	245	310	398	449	264	198	103	54	32	26	17	9
Lancashire	297	621	1,313	1,376	906	531	328	138	120	90	48	23
Leicestershire	307	481	615	664	549	325	231	108	74	84	43	28
Lincolnshire	95	147	204	256	221	146	77	50	31	31	32	15
London	6	13	28	31	20	25	17	7	11	6	1	2
Lothian	6	14	42	68	50	17	13	3	1	2	3	1
Manchester	12	24	40	67	30	16	9	5	6	3	2	—
Merseyside	9	16	35	25	27	5	13	3	1	—	2	—
Norfolk	213	443	789	955	815	510	327	204	131	120	88	49
Northamptonshire	104	197	269	285	231	133	72	57	33	18	22	13
Northumberland	44	109	240	281	224	124	64	38	27	10	10	9
Nottinghamshire	86	105	197	206	163	137	88	34	28	31	29	12
Orkney	5	5	20	33	19	7	4	2	—	—	—	—
Oxfordshire	203	310	512	461	360	205	117	87	53	55	42	27
Powys	123	228	465	593	451	286	166	81	56	42	45	32
Salop	293	467	858	950	662	412	235	143	122	83	54	37
Scilly Isles	—	—	—	—	—	1	—	—	—	—	—	—
Shetland	—	1	1	—	2	1	3	3	—	—	—	—
Somerset	1,115	2,208	2,720	2,544	1,810	1,161	660	383	322	238	111	70
Staffordshire	278	488	956	993	724	419	210	111	75	63	32	21
Strathclyde	129	182	400	541	343	136	59	24	24	11	5	5
Suffolk	160	251	368	477	386	220	151	88	50	61	28	26
Surrey	118	152	260	267	205	112	79	34	19	17	8	6
East Sussex	169	273	378	397	299	211	101	48	38	33	21	20
West Sussex	312	424	645	704	524	331	180	102	60	50	29	25
Tayside	43	45	112	144	105	84	26	21	12	6	3	4
Tyne and Wear	1	6	10	16	12	6	6	—	—	—	2	—
West Midlands	8	10	27	35	19	15	9	7	1	1	1	—
Warwickshire	139	202	294	370	261	169	92	59	35	39	23	18
Wiltshire	743	1,243	1,433	1,433	957	576	312	193	123	108	45	37
North Yorkshire	505	832	1,471	1,618	1,276	782	426	227	252	143	90	56
South Yorkshire	53	70	117	148	140	116	64	38	44	27	12	12
West Yorkshire	70	113	194	244	186	141	86	38	54	29	15	11
Total	12,829	22,613	34,712	36,271	25,579	15,451	8,740	4,847	3,444	2,678	1,541	1,009

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(b) OTMS throughput totals broken down into counties for GB. Of course, the OTMS only began in April 1996. At present, resources only permit us to provide information for 1999, 2000 and 2001.

	1999	2000	2001(59)
England
Bedfordshire	1,492	1,463	976
Berkshire	2,396	2,454	1,381
Buckinghamshire	5,011	5,050	3,316
Cleveland	1,292	1,545	595
Cambridgeshire	1,871	1,781	1,192
Cheshire	36,904	36,471	21,037
Cornwall	31,869	31,910	17,326
Cumbria	48,917	49,170	19,088
Derbyshire	21,590	21,592	12,791
Devon	55,535	58,295	29,652
Dorset	23,004	24,587	14,869
Durham	7,011	7,535	2,729
Essex	2,907	3,016	1,783
Gloucestershire	14,388	15,459	7,883
Hampshire	8,897	9,179	5,648
Isle of Wight	1,773	1,911	988
Hereford and Worcester	15,737	16,657	8,336
Hertfordshire	1,849	1,716	894
Kent	5,024	5,749	3,417
Lancashire	30,957	30,334	15,045
Leicestershire	10,863	11,377	7,187
Lincolnshire	6,141	6,165	3,415
Merseyside	987	952	646
Greater London	276	272	177
Norfolk	7,247	7,442	3,897
Northamptonshire	4,776	5,217	2,962
Tyne and Wear	809	806	276
Northumberland	10,775	10,658	4,633
Nottinghamshire	4,534	4,716	2,784
Oxfordshire	6,015	6,265	4,099
Avon	10,478	10,695	5,940
Shropshire	27,412	27,088	15,782
Somerset	34,962	37,965	21,591
Staffordshire	29,300	29,722	18,230
Suffolk	3,460	3,336	2,032
Isles of Scilly	63	46	18
Surrey	3,423	4,181	2,302
East Sussex	5,066	5,543	3,255
West Sussex	6,671	7,101	3,856
Warwickshire	6,608	7,414	4,306
Greater Manchester	3,577	3,449	1,944
Wiltshire	19,117	19,569	11,350
West Midlands	1,152	985	718
North Yorkshire	37,963	39,069	18,979
South Yorkshire	8,341	8,405	4,067
West Yorkshire	858	910	591
Humberside	3,801	3,789	2,112
Total	573,099	589,011	316,095
Wales
Powys	16,477	16,934	6,922
Gwynedd	10,987	10,303	6,243
Dyfed	53,915	50,989	29,762
Clwyd	16,969	18,026	10,176
South Glamorgan	2,025	1,928	1,108
Mid Glamorgan	2,025	1,995	1,026
West Glamorgan	2,034	2,047	949
Gwent	6,874	6,869	3,573
Total	111,306	109,091	59,759
Scotland
Aberdeenshire	11,607	12,382	7,197
Angus	2,559	2,775	1,905
Argyllshire	4,618	4,778	2,423
Ayrshire	21,459	20,424	11,804
Banffshire	3,106	3,318	2,193
Berwickshire	2,685	2,984	1,467
Bute	1,313	1,490	893
Caithness	2,849	2,931	2,008
Clackmannanshire	202	218	59
Dumfriesshire	13,553	14,047	6,565
Dumbartonshire	1,383	1,363	841
East Lothian	825	930	566
Fife	3,659	3,692	2,043
Inverness-shire	1,952	2,278	1,356
Kincardineshire	2,714	3,161	1,631
Kinross-shire	629	698	380
Kirkcudbrightshire	9,017	9,781	5,209
Lanarkshire	11,803	11,271	6,252
Midlothian	1,861	2,054	1,114
Morayshire	2,417	2,251	1,526
Nairnshire	801	803	499
Orkney	4,876	4,860	3,422
Peeblesshire	1,319	1,467	834
Perthshire	5,326	5,718	3,269
Renfrewshire	3,164	3,025	1,780
Ross and Cromarty	1,663	1,735	992
Roxburghshire	2,740	3,157	1,631
Selkirkshire	462	595	358
Shetland	369	402	252
Stirlingshire	3,283	3,462	1,867
Sutherland	347	439	233
West Lothian	1,441	1,439	872
Wigtownshire	11,132	11,323	5,855
Total	137,134	141,251	79,296
Grant total	821,539	839,353	455,150

⁽⁵⁹⁾ January to November

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