§ Mr. D. E. Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Wales whether he will state the number of full-time agricultural workers engaged in the industry in Wales in each year from 1964 to 1973.
§ Mr. John MorrisThe information requested as extracted from the June agricultural census returns is as follows:
The number of workers returned prior to June 1970 are not comparable for those returned for later years because of changes in the census coverage of labour. These changes included (i) defining 430W "regular whole-time" workers as those engaged in work on the holding for 40 hours or more per week; (ii) including for the first time managerial and clerical workers; (iii) requesting a separate return for junior partners which were previously returned as regular whole-time male workers. These changes have also resulted in some disturbance of the statistics for the years since 1970.
Regular Whole-time Agricultural Workers: Wales 1964 … … … … 20,244 1965 … … … … 19,200 1966 … … … … 17,984 1967 … … … … 16,710 1968 … … … … 15,720 1969 … … … … 14,981 1970 … … … … 13,546 1971 … … … … 14,695 1972 … … … … 13,870 1973 … … … … 14,614