§ Mr. ROYCEasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture how much land has gone out of arable cultivation since the Armistice?
Sir A. BOSCAWENInformation as to the acreage of arable land in the whole of the United Kingdom in 1920 is not yet available, but the acreage of land under86W arable cultivation in England and Wales on 4th June, 1920, was 12,020,000 acres, 289,000 acres less than a year earlier, and 379,000 acres less than on 4th June, 1918. I may add that the acreage of land under arable cultivation at 4th June, 1920, is 1,022,000 greater than at 4th June, 1914, when the total was 10,998,000 acres.