HC Deb 12 April 1983 vol 40 c364W
Mr. Nicholas Winterton

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food by how much farm workers' wages rose on average in 1982.

Mrs. Fenner

The wages and employment enquiry indicates that in 1982 the average weekly earnings of regular whole-time hired men in agriculture in England and Wales were higher than in 1981 by £9.58, or nearly 10 per cent.