§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the breakdown of holdings by size of (a) owned and (b) tenanted farms, together with the total area covered by each size group.
§ Mrs. FennerThe information is as follows:
Tenure of Holdings 1980—Great Britain Size Groups, Hectares Owned or mainly owned Tenanted or mainly Tenanted No '000 Area '000 Hectares No '000 Area '000 Hectares Under 2 9.9 13.1 2.6 6.9 2 to 19.9 50.2 550.4 20.1 324.6 20 to 199.9 74.3 4,967.4 45.2 3,284.0 200 and over 7.6 4,107.1 6.6 3,258.7 Total 142.0 9,637.9 74.6 6,874.3
§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing for the latest year for which figures are available the total acreage covered by holdings in each of the size groups in table 9.7 of the Annual Abstract of Statistics, 1982 edition.
§ Mrs. FennerThe latest available information for the United Kingdom is for June 1980: 179W
Size Groups (in hectares) Total Under 2 2 and under 5 5 and under 20 20 and under 40 40 and under 50 50 and under 100 100 and under 200 200 and over Number of holdings 260,081 15,160 24,279 81,077 52,394 16,543 40,772 20,848 9,008 Area of holdings in size group hectares 12,033,154 15,092 82,934 916,842 1,504,379 735,788 2,866,746 2,855,810 3,055,558 acres 29,734,573 37,293 204,934 2,265,566 3,717,402 1,818,172 7,083,884 7,056,861 7,550,449 Note: Area figures do not add precisely to totals owing to roundings and conversions.