§ Dr. David ClarkTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list the counties which are covered by each of his(a) regional and (b) divisional offices; and how many farms are within the catchment area of each of these offices.
§ Mr. GummerThe counties covered by each of my regional and divisional offices and the number of agricultural holdings within the catchment area of each office are listed in the table:
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Regional and divisional office Counties Number of holdings Bristol (South Western region) Exeter Devon 10,789 Gloucester Avon, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire 8,624 Taunton Dorset, Somerset 9,030
Regional and divisional office Counties Number of holdings Truro Cornwall 7,091 Cambridge (Eastern region) Chelmsford Essex, Greater London (part), Hertfordshire 5,211 Huntingdon Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire 6,986 Lincoln Lincolnshire 5,992 Norwich Norfolk, Suffolk 8,676 Leeds (Northern Region) (Beverley Humberside, North Yorkshire (part), South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire 9,142 Carlisle Cumbria 6,382 Newcastle Cleveland, Durham, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear 5,243 Northallerton North Yorkshire (part) 7,640 Reading (South East region) Guildford Greater London (part), Isle of Wight, Surrey, West Sussex 8,182 Maidstone East Sussex, Greater London (part), Kent 6,622 Oxford Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire 5,005 Wolverhampton (Midlands and Western region) Crewe Cheshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire 13,886 Nottingham Derbyshire, Humberside, Leicestershire 8,583 Preston Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside 7,878 Worcester Hereford and Worcester, Warwickshire, West Midlands 9,690 Note: Number of holdings from June 1990 census.