§ Mr. Wilsonasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will publish a table showing (a) agricultural land as a percentage of total land area for each of the four countries of the United Kingdom, (b) the total acreage of agricultural land in each of the countries and (c) the number of people per agricultural acre.
§ Mrs. FennerThe following table gives the information for mid-1983, the latest available date.
Total area of agricultural land Million hectares Area of agricultural land* Percentage Number of people (home-population)† England 9.95 77 4.7 Wales 1.69 82 1.7 Scotland 6.01 78 0.9 Northern Ireland 1.09 81 1.4 * As a percentage of the total land area. † Per hectare of agricultural land. Notes:
46W(1)the figures for agricultural land Include estimates of common rough grazing.
(2) the population figures are based on mid-1983 estimates from the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys.