HC Deb 29 January 1953 vol 510 cc137-8W
61. Mr. Bullard

asked the Minister of Agriculture the acreage of temporary pasture sown under a nurse crop in each of the years 1950, 1951 and 1952.

Mr. Nugent

The figures for England and Wales in 1950 and 1951 were 1,424,000 and 1,307,000 acres, respectively, and these acreages included lucerne which was then grouped with temporary grass. In 1952, when lucerne was separately returned, the figure for the remaining temporary grass was 1,273,000 acres.