Bankrupt Farmers, East Suffolk

HC Deb 16 November 1950 vol 480 cc194-5W

Mr. Granville

asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will state the number of farmers in East Suffolk judged bankrupt during the years 1935 to 1939, and 1945 to 1949.

Mr. H. Wilson

The numbers of farmers adjudged bankrupt in the Ipswich Court, which is the Bankruptcy Court for East Suffolk, during the years 1935–39 and 1945–49, were as follows:

1935, 2; 1936, 3; 1937, 1; 1938, 6; 1939, 3; 1945, Nil; 1946, Nil; 1947, Nil; 1948, Nil; 1949, 1.