§ 66. Miss Quennellasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many young people are enrolled in the Agricultural Apprenticeship Scheme, county by county; and what percentage of each county's farmworkers these represent.
§ Mr. Scott-HopkinsThe information is as follows:
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THE NUMBERS OF YOUNG PEOPLE ENROLLED IN THE AGRICULTURAL APPRENTICESHIP SCHEME FOR ENGLAND AND WALES AND THE PERCENTAGES THEIR NUMBERS REPRESENT OF THE COUNTIES' FARM WORKERS County Number of apprentices working on 31st October 1963 Number of apprentices expressed as percentage of Male and female regular whole-time workers at June 1963 Regular whole Time males under 18 years of age at June 1963 Anglesey Nil Nil Nil Bedfordshire 77 1.67 25.67 Berkshire 10 0.21 2.99 Brecon and Radnor 2 0.10 0.89 Buckingham 20 0.45 5.51 Caernarvon Nil Nil Nil Cambridge 60 1.43 28.17 Cardigan Nil Nil Nil Carmarthen 2 0.08 0.58 Chester 101 1.17 9.33 Cornwall 1 0.01 0.13 Cumberland 8 0.16 1.24 Denbighshire 1 0.04 0.33 Derbyshire 12 0.25 1.54 Devonshire 5 0.04 0.39 Dorset 22 0.35 4.66 Durham 11 0.24 1.45 Essex 18 0.12 2.19 Flintshire Nil Nil Nil Glamorgan 12 0.64 4.11 Gloucester 21 0.29 2.90 Hampshire 16 0.16 2.06 Herefordshire 4 0.07 0.87 Hertfordshire 11 0.18 3.04 Hunts, and Soke of Peterborough 31 0.88 11.44 Isle of Ely 13 0.23 4.71 Isle of Wight 3 0.33 3.41 Kent 63 0.38 6.68 Lancashire 79 0.67 4.10 Leicestershire 21 0.45 3.98 Lincoln (Lindsay and Kesteven) 15 0.09 1.24 Lincoln (Holland) 1 0.01 0.26
County Number of apprentices working on 31st October 1963 Number of apprentices expressed as percentage of Male and Female regular whole time workers at June 1963 Regular whole-time males under 18 years of age at June 1963 Middlesex Nil Nil Nil Merioneth Nil Nil Nil Montgomery Nil Nil Nil Monmouth Nil Nil Nil Norfolk 21 0.09 1.69 Northampton 13 0.28 3.27 Northumberland 1 0.02 0.19 Nottinghamshire 24 0.44 3.93 Oxfordshire 7 0.17 2.13 Pembroke Nil Nil Nil Rutland Nil Nil Nil Shropshire 19 0.21 2.14 Somerset 8 0.08 0.83 Staffordshire 4 0.06 0.46 Suffolk 44 0.32 5.54 Surrey 5 0.09 1.33 Sussex (East) 4 0.06 0.90 Sussex (West) 5 0.08 1.41 Warwickshire 106 2.03 18.73 Westmorland 3 0.16 1.21 Wiltshire 5 0.06 0.87 Worcester 15 0.24 3.16 Yorks (East Riding) 16 0.18 2.15 Yorks (North Riding) 14 0.15 1.38 Yorks (West Riding) 88 0.71 5.21 England and Wales 1,042 0.29 3.30