§ 48. Mr. Goochasked 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.
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Mr. T. WilliamsWhen 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
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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.