Major Hicks Beachasked the Minister of Agriculture the acreage of agricultural land in England and Wales now let to tenant-farmers at the last most convenient date, as compared with the acreage so let before the passing of the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1948.
§ Sir T. DugdaleThe latest information I have relates to March, 1950, when the estimated tenanted acreage was 17,604,000 acres. I have no comparable information for dates prior to the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1948. I am writing fully to the hon. and gallant Member.