§ Mr. John Wellsasked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will publish a table showing numbers of farmers, farmers' wives and farm workers engaged in work on holdings of a predominantly horticultural nature in England and Wales in 1971 and 1981.
§ Mrs. FennerThe numbers of persons returned at the June agricultural census in 1981 on holdings classified as horticultural holdings—that is, holdings which are most dependent on horticultural crops—were as follows:
Numbers Farmers, partners and directors 18.246 Wives, husbands of farmers, partners and directors 6,031 Regular hired and family workers 42,243 I regret that information on a comparable basis is not available for 1971.