HC Deb 26 October 1944 vol 404 c362W
Mr. Chater

asked the Minister of Agriculture if he can state, approximately, the money value of the increase of British agricultural production from the year 1938 to the last available year of the war period.

Mr. Hudson

The value of the agricultural output of the United Kingdom in 1938–39 is estimated at just over £280,000,000. As I stated on 17th October in reply to my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Howdenshire (Colonel Carver) the preliminary estimate for 1943–44 is somewhat over £540,000,000. In both these estimates Exchequer payments in respect of individual commodities have been taken into account.