§ Mr. Wigginasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what was the ratio of civil servants in his Department to farmers in England and Wales
Country Proportion of total consumption of timber and timber products met by home-grown supplies Proportion of land area covered by productive woodland Woodland area Per cent. Per cent. Million acres United Kingdom … … … 8 5.5 3.3 Belgium … … … 43 19 1.5 Luxembourg … … … 31 0.2 France … … … 84 20 27 Italy … … … 56 21 15 Netherlands … … … 9 6 0.5 West Germany … … … 58 29 17 No estimates are available for the planned acreage in the year 2000.
120Win the following years, namely, 1939, 1945, 1951, 1964 and 1969.
§ Mr. Cledwyn HughesThe ratios of the numbers of civil servants in my Department to the numbers of employers and self-employed persons in agriculture were approximately as follows:
1951 … … … 1 to 6.8 1964 … … … 1 to 16.7 1969 … … … 1 to 15.4 The 1951 figure takes account of the then separate Ministry of Food, but even now a significant number of the Department's staff are engaged on problems of general food policy, international trading relations, fisheries, and the like. Estimates of the numbers of employers and self-employed persons in agriculture in 1939 and 1945 are not available.