§ Fliģht-Lieutenant Parkinasked the Minister of Agriculture how many acres of land in Gloucestershire have been excluded from ploughing orders because of the danger of flooding from the Severn.
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§ Mr. T. Williams:There are no precise statistics of the acreage of land in Gloucestershire which has been excluded from ploughing orders because of the danger of flooding from the Severn, but, upstream of Gloucester, there are some 14,000 acres of land which are subject to fresh water flooding and are deliberately retained in this condition by the Catchment Board to allow a reservoir for winter floods.