HC Deb 20 January 1994 vol 235 c757W
Dr. Strang

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many(a) male and (b) female agricultural workers live in tied cottages in Scotland.

Sir Hector Monro

There are no official figures of the number of agricultural workers living in tied cottages. The results of a sample survey of earnings and hours of agricultural workers indicate that 48 per cent. of male regular hired workers and 10 per cent. of female regular hired workers in Scotland in 1992 lived in a house or cottage as part payment of wages. These figures may not however accurately reflect the number of salaried managers living in a tied house.