HC Deb 04 March 1994 vol 238 cc894-5W
Mr. Nicholas Brown

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will estimate in real terms the increase in farming incomes in(a) 1992 and (b) 1993; and by how much she estimates farming incomes will rise in 1994.

Mr. Jack

Total income from farming, which represents the total income from agriculture of the group with an entrepreneurial interest in the industry—farmers and spouses, non-principal partners and directors and their spouses and family workers—showed an increase in real terms in 1992 of 19.6 per cent. compared with 1991. The provisional figure for 1993 is 38.6 per cent. higher than in 1992. Figures for 1994 are not available.