Agricultural Apprenticeship Scheme (Hansard, 19 July 1966)

§ Mr. John Mackie

The information is as follows:

THE NUMBERS OF YOUNG PEOPLE ENROLLED IN THE AGRICULTURAL APPRENTICESHIP SCHEME FOR ENGLAND AND WALES AND THE PERCENTAGES THEIR NUMBERS REPRESENT OF THE COUNTIES' FARM WORKERS
		Number of apprentices expressed as percentage of
County	Number of apprentices working on 30th April, 1966	Male and female regular wholetime workers at June, 1965	Regular wholetime males under 18 years of age at June, 1965
Anglesey	Nil	Nil	Nil
Bedfordshire	63	1.61	27.16
Berkshire	21	0.50	7.89
Brecon and Radnor	Nil	Nil	Nil
Buckingham	16	0.41	6.37
Caernarvon	Nil	Nil	Nil
Cambridge and Isle of Ely	56	0.67	14.81
Cardigan	Nil	Nil	Nil
Carmarthen	5	0.22	2.12
Chester	95	1.24	10.35
Cornwall	1	0.02	0.16
Cumberland	16	0.36	2.95
Denbighshire	Nil	Nil	Nil
Derbyshire	9	0.21	1.36
Devonshire	10	0.09	1.02
Dorset	31	0.57	8.76
Durham	14	0.35	2.29
Essex	18	0.15	3.18
Flintshire	Nil	Nil	Nil
Glamorgan	17	1.01	6.72
Gloucester	15	0.24	2.82
Hampshire	27	0.32	5.26
Herefordshire	1	0.02	0.29
Hertfordshire	7	0.14	2.80
Hunts and Soke of Peterborough	36	1.01	16.51
Isle of Wight	3	0.35	3.57
Kent	84	0.60	11.78
Lancashire	54	0.53	3.69
Leicestershire and Rutland	27	0.57	5.59
Lincoln (Lindsey and Kesteven)	41	0.27	4.17
Lincoln (Holland)	4	0.05	1.29
Merioneth	Nil	Nil	Nil
Montgomery	Nil	Nil	Nil
Monmouth	Nil	Nil	Nil
Norfolk	28	0.14	2.83
Northampton	20	0.50	6.62
Northumberland	4	0.07	0.90
Nottinghamshire	23	0.47	4.49
Oxfordshire	11	0.30	4.72
Pembroke	Nil	Nil	Nil
Shropshire	9	0.11	1.30
Somerset	12	0.13	1.45
Staffordshire	10	0.17	1.52
Suffolk	53	0.43	8.07
Surrey	7	0.14	2.37
Sussex (East)	6	0.11	1.87
Sussex (West)	9	0.16	3.02
Warwickshire	95	2.11	22.57
Westmorland	3	0.18	1.54
Wiltshire	8	0.11	1.65
Worcester	55	1.01	13.68
Yorks (East Riding)	28	0.36	4.70
Yorks (North Riding)	20	0.24	2.55
Yorks (West Riding)	68	0.62	4.78
ENGLAND AND WALES	1,140	0.36	4.56