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Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food

Answer

Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what is the current incidence of BSE in rare breeds of cattle in the United Kingdom. [12856] Mrs. Browning: As at 1 January 1997, the number of BSE cases confirmed by breed in Great Britain is: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Number Aberdeen Angus 129 Aberdeen Angus X 1,269 Ankole 2 Ayrshire 1,629 Ayrshire X 85 Bazadaise 1 Belgian Blue 81 Belgian Blue X 113 Belted Galloway 2 Black Hereford X 9 Black Limousin X 1 Blonde D'aquitaine 53 Blonde D'aquitaine X 94 Blue Grey 11 Blue Grey X 3 Blue Roan 3 British White 43 British White X 9 Brown Swiss 29 Brown Swiss X 36 Canadian Angus 1 Canadian Angus X 2 Canadian Guernsey 1 Charolais 415 Charolais X 585 Chianin X 2 Chianina X 2 Devon 32 Devon X 104 Dutch Holstein 1 Friesian 130,390 Friesian X 6,599 Galloway 7 Galloway X 20 Gelbvieh X 17 Gelbvieh 17 Gloucester 1 Gloucester X 1 Guernsey 1,560 Guernsey X 38 Hereford 574 Hereford X 8,127 Highland 16 Highland X 3 Holstein 2,334 Holstein X 411 Jersey 1,537 Jersey X 83 Limousin 420 Limousin X 2,206 Lincoln Red 9 Lincoln X 3 Longhorn 9 Luing X 4 Marchigiana 2 Meuse Rhine Issel 17 Meuse Rhine Issel X 16 Murray Grey 29 Murray Grey X 25 Normandy X 2 North Devon 14 North Devon X 34 Piedmontese 5 Piedmontese X 6 Red Friesian 282 Red Friesian X 3 Red Holstein 7 Red Holstein X 1 Red Poll 36 Red Poll X 3 Romagnola 2 Romagnola X 4 Saler 5 Saler X 3 Shorthorn 244 Shorthorn X 125 Simmental 453 Simmental X 1,912 South Devon 108 South Devon X 22 South Down 1 Sussex 47 Sussex X 94 Welsh Black 54 Welsh Black X 33 White Park 2 Sub total 162,724 Not recorded 2,599 Total 165,323 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

12856; 289 c283-4W

Session

1996-97

Subjects

Cattle Diseases BSE

Contains statistics

Yes