HC Deb 06 November 1991 vol 198 cc122-3W
1990. Dr. David Clark

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give the hectarage, number of holdings and numbers of tenants of holdings of agricultural land owned by his Department in each county or Scottish region in(a) 1980 and (b)

Mrs. Rumbold

The Home Office has the following agricultural land holdings in England and Wales:

Hectarage of agricultural land owned and managed by the prison service
County Number of Holdings 1980 1990
Cambridge 1 51 28
Devon 3 751 559
Dorset 3 146 146
Buckinghamshire 1 4 4
Essex 1 6 6
Gloucestershire 1 10 10
Greater Manchester 2 46 46
Gwent 1 86 86
Hampshire 1 79 79
Hereford and Worcestershire 1 43 43
Humberside 1 102 102
Kent 3 101 85
Leicestershire 1 34 34
Lancashire 2 189 189
Lincolnshire 2 518 518
Nottinghamshire 3 353 353

County Number of Holdings 1980 1990
Oxfordshire 1 123 nil
Staffordshire 3 204 204
Suffolk 2 491 491
Warwickshire 1 nil 113
Wiltshire 1 5 5
Yorkshire (North) 1 2 2
Yorkshire (South) 2 226 226
Yorkshire (West) 2 60 60

Hectarage of agricultural land owned by the prison service but let to tenants
County Number of Tenants 1980 1990
Warwickshire 1 1 95.0
Surrey 1 1 19.0
Oxfordshire 1 5.5 5.5
1 (Tenancies not in existence in 1980)

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