Question
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will list by county (a) the number of dairy herds, (b) the number of tuberculosis herd tests in 1997 and (c) the target intended for testing herds. - Inc table.
Answer
Mr. Paice: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list by county (a) the number of dairy herds, (b) the
number of tuberculosis herd tests in 1997 and (c) the target intended for testing herds. [28032]
Mr. Rooker: Census data show holdings on which there are dairy herds. Some holdings may have more than one dairy herd and this will
not be reflected in the figures at (a) below. For England the data relate to June 1996; for Wales they also relate to June 1996 and
to Government Office Regions, not counties. Census data for Scotland relate to June 1997.
TB herd tests at (b) include tests carried out on all cattle herds, beef and dairy. A further breakdown is not available. Figures
are available by county but not for the Government Office Regions in Wales. CAPTION= Hansard
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County (a) Holdings with dairy cows (b) TB herd tests
Northumberland 166 10
Tyne and Wear 18 0
Durham (ex Darlington) 285 292 (Durham)
Cleveland and Darlington 63 42 (Cleveland)
Cumbria 2,061 1,014
Lancashire 1,430 548
Cheshire 1,428 453
Greater Manchester 194 118
Merseyside 31 12
North Yorkshire 1,678 725
East Riding of Yorkshire and North 150 204
Lincolnshire (Humberside)
West Yorkshire 371 316
South Yorkshire 199 111
Derbyshire 949 440
Nottinghamshire 165 152
Lincolnshire 189 178
Leicestershire and Rutland (Leicestershire) 460 172
Northamptonshire 152 109
Staffordshire 1,362 723
Shropshire 1,140 756
Hereford and Worcester 650 1,453
West Midlands 44 30
Warwickshire 281 118
Norfolk 216 232
Suffolk 148 144
Cambridgeshire 51 101
Bedfordshire 52 38
Hertfordshire 78 66
Essex 123 128
Greater London 24 15
Surrey 116 77
Kent 188 149
East Sussex 202 194
West Sussex 205 94
Hampshire 306 215
Isle of Wight 80 3
Oxfordshire 228 146
Buckinghamshire 182 135
Berkshire 85 55
Gloucestershire 546 1,455
North Somerset and South Gloucestershire 436 775 (Avon)
Wiltshire 733 900
Somerset 1,422 1,031
Dorset 884 498
Devon 2,532 3,563
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 1,495 3,490
Aberdeen 137 381
Angus 25 122
Argyll 130 249
Ayr 573 415
Banff 32 178
Berwick 28 70
Bute 50 47
Caithness 28 126
Clackmannan {1}-- 5
Dumfries 323 236
Dumbarton 40 38
East Lothian 8 27
Fife 78 113
Inverness 65 113
Kincardine 34 54
Kinross 11 36
Kirkcudbright 162 161
Lanark 316 186
Midlothian 28 41
Moray 30 75
Nairn 11 15
Orkney 61 190
Peebles 10 29
Perth 50 215
Renfrew 85 71
Ross and Cromarty 54 69
Roxburgh 16 87
Selkirk {1}-- 22
Shetland 21 60
Stirling 77 72
Sutherland 18 34
West Lothian 37 28
Wigtown 239 154
North East Wales 894 --
Powys 528 --
South Wales 546 --
North West Wales 411 --
Ceredigon 644 --
Pembrokeshire 886 --
Carmarthenshire 1,261 --
Powys -- 671
Gwynedd -- 589
Clwyd -- 542
West Glamorgan -- 85
Mid Glamorgan -- 94
South Glamorgan -- 44
Gwent -- 713
Dyfed -- 1,747
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{1} denotes data withheld due to small numbers