§ Mr. Ron DaviesTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will state the distribution by county in England and Wales and by region in Scotland of land approved for inclusion in the farm woodland scheme and the amount of such land on which forestry operations have commenced.
§ Mr. RyderAs at 16 June 1989, our computer record shows the information for England as follows:
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County Hectares Avon 5 Bedfordshire 16 Berkshire 27 Buckinghamshire 50 Cleveland 0 Cambridgeshire 96 Cheshire 23 Cornwall 15 Cumbria 42 Derbyshire 17 Devon 156 Dorset 85 Durham 3 Essex 54 Gloucestershire 171 Hampshire 24 Hereford and Worcester 167 Hertfordshire 6 Humberside 59 Isle of Wight 0 Kent 24 Lancashire 0 Leicestershire 24 Lincolnshire 29 Greater London 0 Greater Manchester 0 Merseyside 0 West Midlands 3 Norfolk 297 Northamptonshire 120 Northumberland 34 Nottinghamshire 25 Oxfordshire 163 Shropshire 23 Somerset 55 Staffordshire 19 Suffolk 201 Surrey 0 East Sussex 12 West Sussex 15 Tyne and Wear 0 Warwickshire 26 Wiltshire 92 North Yorkshire 87 South Yorkshire 0 West Yorkshire 0 No details of the area planted are yet available. The situations in Wales and Scotland are matters for my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Wales and Scotland.