HC Deb 15 March 1982 vol 20 cc53-4W
Mr. Strang

asked the Secretary of State for Transport how many (a) tractors and (b) combine harvesters were sold in the United Kingdom in each of the past 10 years.

Mrs. Chalker

This information is not available for either category. However, new registrations of vehicles in Great Britain in the taxation class "agricultural tractors" were:

Year New registrations
1971 22,935
1972 30,170
1973 29,338
1974 27,696
1975 32,137
1976 36,368
1977 33,224
1978 31,890
1979 28,112
1980 20,902
1981 20,382

These are published monthly in Business Monitor (MMI), where greater detail may be found.