§ Mr. Nottasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what is the estimated percentage net income after all expenses, but before proprietors' living costs and capital expenditure, on a typical West Country mixed farm of 100 acres taking the valuation of land, live and dead stock at approximate current values.
§ Mr. John MackieInformation is not available in the form requested, but the report
Farm Incomes in England and Wales 1967gives data for a sample of 45 mixed farms, with an average of 182 acres in Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and Dorset. For these farms, the average net income in 1967 was £2,214, or just over 20 per cent. of their average valuations of £10,734; net income being defined as the return for the labour of the farmer and wife and for interest on capital assuming, for this purpose, all farms to be wholly tenanted; and valuations defined as covering all such tenant-type assets as livestock, crops and machinery but excluding land and buildings.
§ Mr. Nottasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what was the average size of an agricultural holding in the United Kingdom, and in Cornwall, in the years 1960 to 1968. 318W 1967, which came into operation on 31st October, 1967, grants to outgoers may be paid as either lump sums or annuities. Figures for approvals and payments in the United Kingdom and in Cornwall in 1968 are as follows:
§ Mr. John MackieThe figures, which relate to agricultural holdings exceeding one acre in extent in Great Britain and one acre or more in Northern Ireland, are as follows: