HC Deb 30 July 1949 vol 467 cc197-8W
Mr. Hurd

asked the Minister of Agriculture the numbers of farmers in each county in England and Wales who, on 30th June, were under supervision within the terms of the Agriculture Act, 1947.

Mr. T. Williams

On 30th June the number of farmers under supervision for failure to comply with the rules of good husbandry were:

Bedford … 7
Berkshire … 11
Buckinghamshire … 14
Cambridgeshire … 8
Cheshire … 16
Cornwall … 28
Cumberland … 9
Derbyshire … 23
Devonshire … 46
Dorsetshire … 6
Durham … 40
Essex … 15
Gloucester … 30
Hampshire … 23
Hereford … 6
Hertford … 4
Huntingdon and Soke of Peterborough … 11
Isle of Ely … 6
Isle of Wight … 11
Kent … 41
Lancashire … 16
Leicester … 15
Lincoln (Holland) … 1
Lincoln (Kesteven) … 5
Lincoln (Lindsey) … 22
Middlesex … 4
Norfolk … 6
Northampton … 29
Northumberland … 18
Nottingham … 19
Oxford … 10
Rutland … 2
Shropshire … 14
Somerset … 15
Stafford … 12
Suffolk East … 14
Suffolk West … 3
Surrey … 8
Sussex East … 14
Sussex West … 6
Warwick … 20
Westmorland … 5
Wiltshire … 6
Worcester … 28
Yorkshire (East Riding) … 19
Yorkshire (North Riding) … 33
Yorkshire (West Riding) … 41
Total … 740
Anglesey … 15
Brecon … 6
Caernarvon … 8
Cardigan … 13
Carmarthen … 43
Denbigh … 7
Flintshire … 6
Glamorgan … 12
Merioneth … 5
Monmouth … 49
Montgomery … 10
Pembroke … 19
Radnor … 6
Total … 199

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