§ Mrs. PHILIPSONasked the Minister of Agriculture in what counties (with the numbers in each such county) were the 287 insolvent farmers in the Returns for 1922; and in what counties (with the numbers in each such county) were the remaining 116 insolvent farmers in the Returns for the same year?
Mr. ALEXANDERThe following table gives the particulars desired by the hon. Member:
2358WNUMBERS or RECEIVING ORDERS made against Farmers and of Deeds of Arrangement made by Farmers in various Counties during 1922.
County. Receiving Orders. Deeds of Arrangement. Bedfordshire … 1 2 Buckinghamshire … 3 1 Cambridgeshire … 4 1 Cardiganshire … 1 1 Carmarthenshire … 12 — Carnarvonshire … 10 3 Cheshire … 10 5 Cornwall … 6 — Cumberland … 4 6 Denbighshire … 9 1 Derbyshire … 3 — Devonshire … 15 3 Dorsetshire … 1 1 Durham … 5 1 Essex … 2 3 Glamorganshire … 2 2 Gloucestershire … 10 1 Hampshire … 4 — Herefordshire … 5 1 Hertfordshire … 3 1 Kent … 4 3 Lancashire … 12 6 Leicestershire … 1 1 Lincolnshire … 21 7 London … 1 — Middlesex … 2 — Monmouthshire … 6 — Montgomeryshire … 1 1 Norfolk … 19 14 Northamptonshire … 13 7 Northumberland … 3 4 Nottinghamshire … 4 2 Oxfordshire … 1 3 Pembrokeshire … 3 1 Shropshire … 10 5 Somersetshire … 11 1 Staffordshire … 7 2 Suffolk … 2 3 Surrey … 2 1 Sussex … 9 5 Warwickshire … 5 4 Westmorland — 1 Wiltshire … 6 2 Worcestershire … 6 — Yorkshire … 28 10 Totals … 287 116 Grand Total … 403