HC Deb 26 January 1998 vol 305 c31W
Mr. Charles Kennedy

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will place in the Library a copy of the regional lists of his Department's agricultural holdings, indicating respectively,(a) the number of hectares used for agricultural production and (b) the number of agricultural tenancy agreements involved. [24694]

Mr. Spellar

The number of agricultural holdings by Region for my Department is given in the table:

Number of tenancies Number of hectares
Southern Eastern Region 78 2,944
South Western Region 155 24,230
Eastern Region 123 7,342
Northern Region (including Wales) 186 3,863
Scotland 13 1,933
Total 555 40,312