§ Mr. Martyn JonesTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list his estimate of the amount of set-aside in the current growing season in each county of England and Wales.
§ Mr. CurryThe table gives the latest available figures for the amount of land currently set-aside under the five year set-aside scheme in each county in England. Information on land set-aside under the new arable area payments scheme will not be available until growers have to declare the area later this year. Figures for Wales are a matter for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales.
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Country Area (hectares) Avon 1,390 Bedfordshire 1,774 Berkshire 2,503 Buckinghamshire 5,392 Cambridgeshire 3,855 Cheshire 907 Cleveland 24 Cornwall 1,421 Cumbria 393 Derbyshire 847 Devon 1,595 Dorset 1,565 Durham 970 East Sussex 2,672 Essex 4,067 Gloucestershire 5,552 Greater London 261 Greater Manchester 126 Hampshire 2,750 Hereford and Worcester 1,804 Hertfordshire 2,135 Humberside 1,564 Isle of Wight 57 Kent 4,546 Lancashire 243 Leicestershire 1,517 Lincolnshire 3,354 Merseyside 259 North Yorkshire 2,505 Norfolk 3,126 Northamptonshire 3,986 Northumberland 663 Nottinghamshire 777 Oxfordshire 5,758 South Yorkshire 418 Shropshire 591 Somerset 1,821 Staffordshire 1,177 Suffolk 3,625 Surrey 1,665 Tyne and Wear 414 West Yorkshire 317 Warwickshire 1,751 West Midlands 132 West Sussex 2,449 Wiltshire 3,850 Total 88,565