HC Deb 21 October 1954 vol 531 cc195-6W
Mr. Gooch

asked the Minister of Agriculture to give an estimate, county by county and year by year, of the numbers of farmworkers who have left the land in England and Wales in the past six years.

Mr. Amory

The Agricultural Returns do not show how many workers leave farms in a given period. I am sending the hon. Member a table compiled from 4th June returns showing, by counties, the net changes that took place in each of the past six years in the number of workers regularly employed by farmers.