§ Mr. Hiltonasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will state the average weekly earnings of regular adult male farm workers in England and Wales and in Great Britain, respectively, for the year ended March, 1961, the value of payments in kind included in those earnings, and the percentage of earnings represented by those payments in kind.
§ Mr. SoamesThe estimated average weekly earnings of regular whole-time adult male agricultural workers in the year ended 31st March, 1961, were £10 9s. 10d. in England and Wales and £10 9s. 3d. in Great Britain. In England and Wales the earnings included 6s. 5d. per week, or 3 per cent. of the total, in the form of payments in kind; for Great Britain the corresponding figures are 8s. 2d. and 4 per cent.