HC Deb 18 May 1950 vol 475 cc170-2W
48. Mr. Gooch

asked the Minister of Agriculture if he will indicate county by county the number of farm workers and smallholders appointed to serve on county smallholdings committees.

Mr. T. Williams

When individual appointments have been completed in accordance with approved arrangements, all the new county smallholdings committees will include farm workers or other persons suggested by the agricultural workers' unions. With two exceptions, all committees will include smallholders, the majority of them tenants of county council smallholdings.

The information is as follows

COUNTY SMALLHOLDINGS COMMITTEES CONSTITUTED UNDER S. 61 OF THE AGRICULTURE ACT, 1947.
APPOINTMENT OF FARM WORKERS AND SMALLHOLDERS
Farm Workers* Smallholders
ENGLAND
Bedfordshire 1 1
Berkshire 2 1
Bucks. 1 1
Cambs. 1 1
Cheshire 2 3
Cornwall 1 2
Cumberland 2 1
Derby 1 1
Devon 1 1
Dorset 2 1
Durham 2 1
Essex 1 2
Gloucester 2 3
Hants. 1 2
Hereford 1 2
Hertford 2 1
Hunts. 1 2
Isle of Ely 2 2
Isle of Wight 1 1
Kent 2 1
Lancashire 2 3
Leicester 1 2
Lincs. (Holland) 2 2
Lincs. (Kesteven) 1 1
Lincs. (Lindsey) 2 1
Middlesex 2 2
Norfolk 2 2
Northampton 2 1
Northumberland 2 1
Notts. 2 1
Oxford 2 2
Rutland Committee not yet appointed
Salop 2 2
Soke of Peterborough 2 1
Somerset 2 1
Staffs. 2 2
Suffolk, East 1 1
Suffolk, West 2 2
Surrey 2 2
Sussex, East 1 1
Sussex, West 1 1
Warwick 1 1
Westmorland 1
Wilts. 2 1
Worcester 2 2
Yorks, East Riding 1
Yorks, North Riding 1 1
Yorks, West Riding 2 3

Farm Workers* Smallholders
WALES
Anglesey 2 2
Brecon 2 1
Caernarvon 2 1
Cardigan 2 1
Carmarthen 2 1
Denbighshire 2 1
Flint 2 4
Glamorgan 2 2
Merioneth 2 1
Monmouth 1 2
Montgomery 2 1
Pembroke 1 1
Radnor 2 1
*Including other persons suggested by the Agricultural Workers' Unions.