§ Mr. Gordon PrenticeTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what estimate he has made of the permanent loss of Grade 1 agricultural land since 1980. [45896]
§ Mr. MorleyThe Department does not hold information about actual agricultural land losses by ALC Grade. The Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions' Land Use Change Statistics give, for England, approximate estimates of the amounts of land changing from agriculture to developed urban uses, but the data do not record ALC Grade.