§ Mr. P. Wellsasked the Minister of Agriculture the number of permits of exemption to pay rates below the statutory minimum wage which were current in each county in England and Wales at the latest available date.
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§ Sir T. DugdaleAt 30th September, 1953, the total was 4,344, distributed by agricultural wages committee areas as follows:
Committee Area Males Females Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire 72 — Berkshire 63 1 Buckinghamshire 37 — Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely 59 — Cheshire 127 — Cornwall 83 — Cumberland and Westmorland 41 — Derbyshire 59 — Devonshire 389 1 Dorset 92 1 Durham 37 — Essex 209 — Gloucestershire 193 1 Hampshire and Isle of Wight 168 2 Herefordshire 64 — Hertfordshire 60 1 Kent 260 4 Lancashire 48 — Leicestershire and Rutland 68 1 Lincolnshire (Holland) 46 — Lincolnshire (Kesteven and Lindsey) 141 32 Middlesex 27 2 Monmouthshire 20 1 Norfolk 151 1 Northamptonshire and Soke of Peterborough 60 — Northumberland 32 — Nottinghamshire 55 — Oxfordshire 49 1 Shropshire 87 — Somerset 184 1 Staffordshire 66 — Suffolk 140 — Surrey 65 1 Sussex 225 — Warwickshire 182 — Wiltshire 129 1 Worcestershire 71 3 Yorkshire, East Riding 57 — Yorkshire, North Riding 45 — Yorkshire, West Riding 80 — Anglesey and Caernarvon 34 — Carmarthenshire 47 — Denbigh and Flint 40 1 Glamorganshire 32 — Merioneth and Montgomeryshire 39 1 Pembroke and Cardigan 39 — Radnor and Brecon 15 — TOTAL, England and Wales 4,287 57