§ Mr. LANE-FOXasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture whether 800,000 acres of land in the United Kingdom have recently gone out of cultivation?
Sir A. BOSCAWENThe reduction in arable land in Great Britain since 1918 has been 457,000 acres; in the total area under crops and grass, 502,000 acres. Similar figures for Ireland are not yet available. I may add that the acreage of land under arable cultivation on 4th June, 1920, was 1,022,000 greater than on 4th June, 1914, when the total was 10,998,000 acres.