§ Miss Quennellasked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity what percentage of the labour force employed and self-employed, respectively, is engaged in agriculture or forestry in the Petersfield constituency; and how this compares with the national average.
§ Mr. FernyhoughAt June, 1967, the latest date for which information is available, approximately 10 per cent. of all employees in the area covered by the Petersfield and Alton Employment Exchanges were classified either to agriculture and horticulture or to forestry 61W (Minimum List Headings 001 and 002) of the Standard Industrial Classification). The corresponding figure for Great Britain was 1.8 per cent. My Department does not make estimates of the numbers of self-employed persons in local areas.