§ Mr. Chapmanasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what total acreage of agricultural land 128W was lost to other uses in the last 12 months for which figures are available; and what percentage of the total was represented by each grade.
§ Mrs. FennerThe average yearly loss of agricultural land to development or other uses, excluding woodlands, in England in the five-year period ending June 1980, the latest year for which figures are available, was 18,500 hectares or 45,800 acres. I regret that there are no statistics of land loss by grade.