Farmers (Bankruptcy)

HC Deb 28 November 1950 vol 481 cc129-30W

Mr. A. Lewis

asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will give the number of farmers who were declared bankrupt since the end of the 1939–45 war to the latest available date, together with those declared bankrupt after the 1914–18 war for a like period of time.

Mr. H. Wilson

Including bankruptcy orders and deeds of arrangement the figures are: for the period January, 1946, to October, 1950, 210; for the years 1919 to 1923, 1,237.