HC Deb 08 September 1909 vol 10 c1453W
Mr. MARKHAM

asked the hon. Member for South Somerset if he can state the total number of persons engaged in agriculture, excluding gardening, during the year 1908?

Sir E. STRACHEY

The number of occupiers of land in Great Britain making returns to the Board in 1908 was 508,629, but no statistics of the number of persons engaged in agriculture are available since the Census of 1901.