§ Dr. David ClarkTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list the amount of land in each county which has been under cereal production for each year since 1987.
§ Mr. GummerThe information requested is given in the following table. Data are taken from the 1987 to 1990 June agricultural censuses and hence exclude estimates for minor holdings not in the annual census.
Census of agriculture June 1987.90 Distribution of cereals area by county '000 hectares 1987 1988 1989 1990 Avon 17.0 17.6 17.1 16.2 Bedfordshire 55.3 53.3 54.3 51.5 Berkshire 37.5 37.2 36.2 33.7 Buckinghamshire 54.7 52.4 51.5 47.0 Cambridgeshire 170.5 166.2 164.9 161.2 Cheshire 29.8 29.7 28.5 26.2 Cleveland 14.7 14.2 14.6 13.2 Cornwall1 46.2 46.1 43.9 40.4 Cumbria 24.6 24.0 22.4 20.3 Derbyshire 32.0 32.4 32.7 31.1 Devon 74.3 74.4 70.0 65.6 Dorset 56.7 56.9 56.7 53.6 Durham 36.5 37.3 37.6 34.9 East Sussex 31.1 30.4 28.8 26.6 Essex 161.2 155.2 158.9 153.7 Gloucestershire 81.0 80.4 76.9 70.3 Greater London 4.6 4.6 4.3 4.1 Greater Manchester 6.1 6.2 6.1 5.9 Hampshire 104.6 105.9 105.2 101.2 Hereford and Worcester 90.8 91.4 90.7 84.3 Hertfordshire 59.4 58.4 58.7 56.5 Humberside 178.9 178.0 179.7 172.6 Isle of Wight 8.8 9.3 9.1 8.1 Kent 92.8 89.2 92.7 86.1 Lancashire 19.5 20.0 19.0 17.2 Leicestershire 87.4 86.0 87.2 80.9 Lincolnshire 290.6 285.3 290.5 279.3 Merseyside 10.0 10.0 9.9 9.1 Norfolk 214.3 210.1 210.6 204.5 North Yorkshire 196.7 196.2 198.6 189.9 Northamptonshire 94.8 92.8 93.0 85.5 Northumberland 74.9 76.0 77.0 72.9 Nottinghamshire 81.7 80.5 81.3 75.8 Oxfordshire 110.2 107.7 107.5 99.8 Shropshire 84.2 85.0 85.4 80.5 Somerset 45.8 47.7 47.6 44.2 South Yorkshire 35.7 35.6 35.1 32.7 Staffordshire 46.1 46.1 46.6 42.8 Suffolk 173.3 169.5 172.5 169.0 Surrey 15.1 14.1 13.5 12.5 Tyne and Wear 8.2 8.2 7.9 7.3 Warwickshire 68.0 66.7 67.7 62.4 West Midlands 5.6 5.6 5.5 5.4 West Sussex 44.8 43.8 41.5 40.0 West Yorkshire 22.5 22.3 23.0 22.0 Wiltshire 114.2 113.4 113.1 106.6 England 3,312.9 3,273.0 3,275.1 3,105.1 1 Includes Scilly Isles. Notes: Minor holdings are excluded. Triticale is included from 1989.