HC Deb 08 June 1993 vol 226 c224W
Dr. Strang

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what activities she is proposing to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Board for the Encouragement of Agriculture and Internal Improvement and the publication of the county reports.

Mrs. Gillian Shephard

None; the board was not really a Government Department, and I understand that its true successor was the Royal Agricultural Society of England —RASE. Furthermore, the Department celebrated in 1989 the much more significant centenary of the establishment of the Board of Agriculture, which coincided with the 150th anniversary of the founding of the RASE.