§ 82. Mr. D. GRENFELLasked the Minister of Agriculture the value of home-grown agricultural products for the last five years, respectively, with the number of people employed in agriculture, including farmers, members of their families over 14 years, and agricultural employés?
§ Mr. ELLIOTAs the answer contains a number of figures I propose, with the hon. Member's permission, to circulate a statement in the OFFICIAL REPORT.
§ Following is the answer:
§ The estimated value of the output of agricultural and horticultural produce in England and Wales during the years 1930–31 to 1933–34 was:
| £ | |
| 1930–31 | 195,540,000 |
| 1931–32 | 182,590,000 |
| 1932–33 | 177,710,000 |
| 1933–34 | 194,630,000 |
§ NOTE.—(1) These estimates do not include glasshouse produce, flowers grown in the open and nursery stock, the combined output of which was valued in the Census year 1930–31 at £7,120,000.
§ (2) In the valuation of the wheat crop no account has been taken of the deficiency payments made to growers in England and Wales by the Wheat Commission. These payments amounted to about £4,269,000 in respect of the cereal year 1932–33 and £6,749,000 in 1933–34.
§ (3) Corresponding estimates for the year 1934–35 are not yet available.
§ The numbers of agricultural workers (excluding the occupier, his wife and domestic servants) in England and Wales as returned on the 4th June, 1931 to 1935 were:
| 1931 | 716,607 |
| 1932 | 697,481 |
| 1933 | 715,548 |
| 1934 | 678,972 |
| 1935 | 672,104 |
| (provisional) |
§ NOTE.—(a) Particulars of the number of farmers and others working on their own 1111 account in the agricultural industry are not collected annually.
§ (b) In the Industry Tables published in connection with the Census of Population, 1931, persons returned as working on their own account or in a managerial capacity in the agricultural industry in England and Wales numbered 313,385.