§ Mr. Robert Banksasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what is his latest estimate of the current acreage of (a) grade I, (b) grade II and (c) grade III agricultural land.
§ Mrs. FennerI regret that precise figures are not available. Information derived in early 1983 from the provisional 1:63360 scale agricultural land classification maps shows that in England about 3 per cent. of agricultural land was in grade 1, 17 per cent. in grade 2 and 54 per cent. in grade 3.