§ Mr. Ralph HowellTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will update the information in the reply to the hon. Member for Norfolk, North of 3 March 1987,Official Report, column 540, about average farm rents in (a) the United Kingdom and (b) England for each year since 1979.
§ Mr. Donald ThompsonThe table gives average farm rents for(a) Great Britain and (b) England. Information cannot be provided for the United Kingdom because Northern Ireland's land tenure system is not generally comparable with that of Great Britain.
Average farm rents (£ per hectare) Year Great Britain England2 1979 38.23 42.13 1980 45.27 50.01 1981 52.91 58.36 1982 60.39 66.14 1983 67.70 73.93 1984 74.37 81.27 1985 80.42 88.01 1986 86.52 95.11 11987 89.21 97.84 1 Provisional. 2 The figures for England are due to be published in a Ministry statistics release on 24 February 1988.