§ Mr. LawsTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will list the statistics that are collected by her Department by English parliamentary constituency; and if she will make a statement. [67096]
§ Mr. Morley[holding answer 8 July 2002]: DEFRA produces statistics from the June Agricultural and Horticultural Census by parliamentary constituency in England for the following data sets:
- Land use and crops
- Livestock numbers
- Labour force
- Breakdown by total area size bands
- Breakdown by farm type.
These statistics have been produced for the years 1999, 2000 and 2001. Copies of the 1999 and 2000 data sets are available in the Library. Statistics for 2001 are available on request and will shortly be deposited in the Library.