Farm Statistics (Hansard, 25 April 1994)

§ Dr. Strang

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (1) what proportion of(a) the total land mass and (b) the agricultural area of each English county

Estimates of the total agricultural land (a) by county and FBS province in 1992
		Total agricultural land designated as:	Proportion of total land mass (b) designated as:	Proportion of agricultural area designated as:
FBS province	County	SDA	DA hectares	LFA	SDA per cent.	DA per cent.	LFA per cent.	SDA per cent.	DA per cent.	LFA per cent.
East Midland
	Derbyshire	67,759	13,824	81,583	26	5	31	37	8	44
		67,759	13,824	81,583	4	1	5	6	1	7
Northern
	Cumbria	192,312	40,427	232,740	28	6	34	42	9	51
	Durham	77,440	11,873	89,312	32	5	37	49	8	57
	Northumberland	235,296	23,594	258,890	47	5	51	62	6	68
		505,048	75,894	580,942	34	5	39	50	7	57
North Eastern
	Cleveland	7,062	1,766	8,827	12	3	15	25	6	31
	North Yorkshire	159,269	47,565	206,834	19	6	25	25	7	32
	South Yorkshire	8,810	6,141	14,951	6	4	10	11	7	18
	West Yorkshire	29,993	9,305	39,298	15	5	19	30	9	39
		205,134	64,776	296,910	13	4	17	19	6	25
North Western
	Cheshire	8,812	1,619	10,431	4	1	4	5	1	6
	Greater Manchester	6,992	4,873	11,865	5	4	9	17	12	29
	Lancashire	59,869	41,076	100,944	20	13	33	27	19	45
	Shropshire	29,001	13,632	42,533	8	4	12	10	5	15
	Staffordshire	12,711	17,732	30,443	5	7	11	6	9	15
		117,384	78,832	196,216	9	6	14	13	8	21
Southern
	Hereford and Worcester	10,689	6,518	17,207	3	2	4	3	2	6
		10,689	6,518	17,207	..	..	1	1	..	1
South Western
	Cornwall (including Isles of Scilly)	11,171	43,878	55,048	3	12	16	4	16	20
	Devon	71,394	63,743	135,137	11	9	20	14	12	26
	Somerset	31,419	2,038	33,457	9	1	10	11	1	12
		113,983	109,659	223,642	7	7	14	9	9	18
ENGLAND		1,019,999	349,604	1,369,500	8	3	11	11	4	15

Less than 0.5 per cent.

(a) Area on main holdings with land in the SDA or DA excluding common rough grazing

(b) Including inland water

Sources: Agricultural Census, Municipal yearbook

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and the counties as grouped together for the purposes of compiling the farm business survey, is designated (i) severely disadvantaged area, (ii) disadvantaged area and (iii) less-favoured area; and what are the figures for England as a whole;

(2) what is the total hectarage of agricultural land for (a) each English county and (b) each farm business survey county group, which is designated (i) severely disadvantaged area, (ii) disadvantaged area and (c) less-favoured area according to the most recent unweighted figures from the annual farm census.