§ Mr. Spearingasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will tabulate in the Official Report the amount of agricultural land—in acres and hectares—lost in the last five years to urban development and new motorways, respectively.
§ Mrs. FennerThe statistical returns from which agricultural land loss data are derived do not allow for the separation of losses in the form requested. I refer the hon. Member to the reply which my right hon. Friend gave to my hon. Friends the Members for Liverpool, Wavertree (Mr. Steen) and Hammersmith, Fulham (Mr. Stevens) on 12 November for details of the estimate of land lost to urban development between 1975 and 1980.—[Vol. 12, c. 644.]