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Agriculture: Pay

Written question asked by Huw Irranca-Davies (Labour) on Monday, 15 October 2012, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 15 October 2012. It was answered by David Heath (Liberal Democrat) on Monday, 15 October 2012 on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many agricultural workers in each parliamentary constituency are covered by the provisions of the Agricultural Wages Board.

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Answer

The number of paid agricultural workers in each parliamentary constituency is shown in the following table. This includes salaried managers, regular workers, casual and gang workers.

The numbers are based on 2010 data for the new parliamentary constituency boundaries and for commercial holdings with significant levels of farming activity. These significant levels are classified as any holding with more than 5 hectares of agricultural land, 1 hectare of orchards, 0.5 hectares of vegetables or 0.1 hectares of protected crops, or more than 10 cows, 50 pigs, 20 sheep, 20 goats or 1,000 poultry.

Parliamentary constituency
Paid
Aldershot
*
Aldridge-Brownhills
36
Altrincham and Sale West
46
Amber Valley
69
Arundel and South Downs
1,300
Ashfield
63
Ashford
749
Ashton-under-Lyne
*
Aylesbury
97
Banbury
297
Barnsley Central
12
Barnsley East
54
Barrow and Furness
108
Basildon and Billericay
38
Basingstoke
9
Bassetlaw
425
Bath
*
Batley and Spen
64
Battersea
*
Beaconsfield
242
Beckenham
*
Bedford
6
Berwick-upon-Tweed
902
Beverley and Holderness
1,040
Bexhill and Battle
455
Bexleyheath and Crayford
0
Birkenhead
*
Birmingham, Edgbaston
*
Birmingham, Erdington
*
Birmingham, Ladywood
0
Birmingham, Northfield
*
Birmingham, Yardley
0
Bishop Auckland
308
Blackburn
14
Blackpool North and Cleveleys
0
Blackpool South
*
Blaydon
47
Blyth Valley
37
Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
237
Bolsover
134
Bolton North East
21
Bolton South East
*
Bolton West
36
Boston and Skegness
1,829
Bosworth
241
Bournemouth East
16
Bournemouth West
*
Bracknell
625
Bradford East
*
Bradford South
26
Bradford West
19
Braintree
330
Brent North
*
Brentford and Isleworth
*
Brentwood and Ongar
348
Bridgwater and West Somerset
906
Brigg and Goole
464
Brighton, Kemptown
17
Brighton, Pavilion
*
Bristol East
0
Bristol North West
*
Bristol South
*
Bristol West
*
Broadland
1,047
Bromley and Chislehurst
0
Bromsgrove
133
Broxbourne
63
Broxtowe
25
Buckingham
627
Burnley
58
Burton
242
Bury North
20
Bury South
26
Bury St Edmunds
618
Calder Valley
126
Camborne and Redruth
276
Cambridge
*
Cannock Chase
16
Canterbury
1,424
Carlisle
122
Carshalton and Wallington
*
Castle Point
20
Central Devon
1,080
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
869
Charnwood
308
Chatham and Aylesford
18
Cheadle
63
Chelmsford
54
Chelsea and Fulham
*
Cheltenham
14
Chesham and Amersham
129
Chesterfield
*
Chichester
1,536
Chingford and Woodford Green
0
Chippenham
149
Chipping Barnet
*
Chorley
236
Christchurch
85
Cities of London and Westminster
*
City of Chester
169
City of Durham
97
Clacton
111
Cleethorpes
249
Colchester
*
Colne Valley
109
Congleton
267
Copeland
510
Corby
370
Coventry North East
*
Coventry North West
28
Coventry South
0
Crawley
*
Crewe and Nantwich
136
Croydon Central
0
Croydon South
*
Dagenham and Rainham
*
Darlington
*
Dartford
191
Daventry
439
Denton and Reddish
*
Derby North
*
Derby South
*
Derbyshire Dales
680
Devizes
718
Dewsbury
82
Don Valley
110
Doncaster Central
19
Doncaster North
141
Dover
161
Dudley North
*
Dudley South
*
Ealing North
*
Easington
55
East Devon
344
East Ham
0
East Hampshire
478
East Surrey
218
East Worthing and Shoreham
27
East Yorkshire
915
Eastbourne
7
Eastleigh
44
Eddisbury
923
Edmonton
*
Ellesmere Port and Neston
130
Elmet and Rothwell
300
Eltham
*
Enfield North
52
Enfield, Southgate
*
Epping Forest
338
Epsom and Ewell
16
Erewash
22
Esher and Walton
209
Exeter
*
Fareham
339
Faversham and Mid Kent
1,749
Feltham and Heston
*
Filton and Bradley Stoke
22
Finchley and Golders Green
0
Folkestone and Hythe
336
Forest of Dean
602
Fylde
239
Gainsborough
920
Garston and Halewood
50
Gateshead
0
Gedling
*
Gillingham and Rainham
*
Gloucester
*
Gosport
*
Grantham and Stamford
418
Gravesham
417
Great Yarmouth
441
Greenwich and Woolwich
0
Guildford
158
Hackney South and Shoreditch
0
Halesowen and Rowley Regis
*
Halifax
16
Haltemprice and Howden
727
Halton
*
Harborough
206
Harlow
588
Harrogate and Knaresborough
124
Harrow East
0
Harrow West
*
Hartlepool
41
Harwich and North Essex
735
Hastings and Rye
185
Havant
49
Hayes and Harlington
*
Hazel Grove
22
Hemel Hempstead
55
Hemsworth
66
Hendon
*
Henley
427
Hereford and South Herefordshire
1,200
Hertford and Stortford
99
Hertsmere
108
Hexham
629
Heywood and Middleton
21
High Peak
204
Hitchin and Harpenden
159
Hornchurch and Upminster
11
Horsham
310
Houghton and Sunderland South
13
Hove
*
Huddersfield
32
Huntingdon
156
Hyndburn
47
Ilford North
*
Ipswich
0
Isle of Wight
1,009
Islington South and Finsbury
*
Jarrow
16
Keighley
59
Kenilworth and Southam
516
Kensington
0
Kettering
127
Kingston and Surbiton
*
Kingston upon Hull East
*
Kingston upon Hull North
*
Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
0
Kingswood
30
Knowsley
18
Lancaster and Fleetwood
364
Leeds Central
*
Leeds East
30
Leeds North East
*
Leeds North West
62
Leeds West
*
Leicester East
0
Leicester South
*
Leicester West
*
Leigh
35
Lewes
382
Lichfield
422
Lincoln
37
Liverpool, Walton
*
Liverpool, Wavertree
*
Liverpool, West Derby
*
Loughborough
48
Louth and Horncastle
979
Ludlow
1,192
Luton North
0
Luton South
21
Macclesfield
211
Maidenhead
127
Maidstone and The Weald
973
Makerfield
25
Maldon
400
Manchester Central
*
Mansfield
50
Meon Valley
634
Meriden
68
Mid Bedfordshire
238
Mid Derbyshire
54
Mid Dorset and North Poole
86
Mid Norfolk
1,001
Mid Sussex
144
Mid Worcestershire
979
Middlesbrough
*
Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
120
Milton Keynes North
117
Milton Keynes South
*
Mitcham and Morden
0
Mole Valley
254
Morecambe and Lunesdale
162
Morley and Outwood
101
New Forest East
519
New Forest West
462
Newark
577
Newbury
397
Newcastle upon Tyne East
*
Newcastle-under-Lyme
24
Newcastle upon Tyne Central
53
Newton Abbot
154
Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
35
North Cornwall
809
North Devon
682
North Dorset
1,011
North Durham
35
North East Bedfordshire
461
North East Cambridgeshire
1,377
North East Derbyshire
126
North East Hampshire
223
North East Hertfordshire
370
North East Somerset
245
North Herefordshire
3,839
North Norfolk
718
North Shropshire
921
North Somerset
216
North Swindon
46
North Thanet
141
North Tyneside
11
North Warwickshire
278
North West Cambridgeshire
417
North West Durham
232
North West Hampshire
442
North West Leicestershire
239
North West Norfolk
795
North Wiltshire
542
Northampton North
*
Northampton South
*
Norwich North
*
Norwich South
*
Nottingham North
*
Nottingham South
0
Nuneaton
39
Old Bexley and Sidcup
*
Oldham East and Saddleworth
21
Oldham West and Royton
*
Orpington
85
Oxford East
*
Oxford West and Abingdon
52
Pendle
75
Penistone and Stocksbridge
162
Penrith and The Border
1,122
Peterborough
113
Plymouth, Moor View
0
Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
*
Poole
*
Poplar and Limehouse
*
Portsmouth South
0
Preston
0
Pudsey
49
Putney
0
Rayleigh and Wickford
173
Reading East
*
Reading West
10
Redcar
*
Redditch
92
Reigate
101
Ribble Valley
423
Richmond (Yorks)
1,287
Richmond Park
*
Rochdale
12
Rochester and Strood
312
Rochford and Southend East
53
Romford
*
Romsey and Southampton North
463
Rossendale and Darwen
90
Rother Valley
94
Rotherham
13
Rugby
215
Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
8
Runnymede and Weybridge
63
Rushcliffe
332
Rutland and Melton
836
Saffron Walden
496
Salford and Eccles
*
Salisbury
361
Scarborough and Whitby
352
Scunthorpe
130
Sedgefield
175
Sefton Central
76
Selby and Ainsty
1,064
Sevenoaks
220
Sheffield Central
*
Sheffield South East
*
Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
0
Sheffield, Hallam
85
Sheffield, Heeley
*
Sherwood
580
Shipley
65
Shrewsbury and Atcham
606
Sittingbourne and Sheppey
742
Skipton and Ripon
1,058
Sleaford and North Hykeham
980
Slough
*
Solihull
*
Somerton and Frome
889
South Basildon and East Thurrock
91
South Cambridgeshire
535
South Derbyshire
242
South Dorset
228
South East Cambridgeshire
892
South East Cornwall
662
South Holland and The Deepings
1,981
South Leicestershire
287
South Norfolk
801
South Northamptonshire
419
South Ribble
1,228
South Shields
*
South Staffordshire
355
South Suffolk
591
South Swindon
71
South Thanet
560
South West Bedfordshire
52
South West Devon
192
South West Hertfordshire
124
South West Norfolk
2,372
South West Surrey
470
South West Wiltshire
521
Southampton, Test
0
Southend West
*
Southport
*
Spelthorne
22
St Albans
102
St Austell and Newquay
253
St Helens North
168
St Helens South and Whiston
20
St Ives
803
Stafford
493
Staffordshire Moorlands
398
Stalybridge and Hyde
22
Stevenage
13
Stockport
*
Stockton North
34
Stockton South
26
Stoke-on-Trent Central
*
Stoke-on-Trent North
*
Stoke-on-Trent South
*
Stone
1,255
Stourbridge
*
Stratford-on-Avon
1,551
Stretford and Urmston
20
Stroud
385
Suffolk Coastal
918
Sunderland Central
*
Surrey Heath
87
Sutton and Cheam
*
Sutton Coldfield
12
Tamworth
264
Tatton
527
Taunton Deane
660
Telford
*
Tewkesbury
278
The Cotswolds
903
The Wrekin
703
Thirsk and Malton
1,513
Thornbury and Yate
379
Thurrock
*
Tiverton and Honiton
859
Tonbridge and Mailing
950
Torbay
*
Torridge and West Devon
1,167
Totnes
433
Truro and Falmouth
372
Tunbridge Wells
323
Twickenham
0
Tynemouth
*
Uxbridge and South Ruislip
*
Wakefield
42
Wallasey
*
Walsall North
0
Walsall South
8
Wansbeck
55
Wantage
397
Warrington North
102
Warrington South
46
Warwick and Leamington
51
Washington and Sunderland West
23
Watford
*
Waveney
276
Wealden
633
Weaver Vale
171
Wellingborough
106
Wells
548
Welwyn Hatfield
66
Wentworth and Dearne
41
West Bromwich East
*
West Bromwich West
*
West Dorset
933
West Lancashire
515
West Suffolk
906
West Worcestershire
1,073
Westmorland and Lonsdale
433
Weston-Super-Mare
131
Wigan
33
Winchester
307
Windsor
54
Wirral South
33
Wirral West
42
Witham
541
Witney
450
Woking
39
Wokingham
168
Wolverhampton North East
0
Wolverhampton South West
*
Worcester
0
Workington
347
Worsley and Eccles South
50
Worthing West
20
Wycombe
74
Wyre and Preston North
415
Wyre Forest
148
Wythenshawe and Sale East
*
Yeovil
463
York Central
*
York Outer
185
England total
122,692
Note:
Where figures relate to less than five holdings data is suppressed and replaced with an asterisk (*) to avoid disclosure of information about individual holdings. If only one item contributing to a total in a row or column has been suppressed then secondary suppression is required to preserve confidentiality of the initially suppressed item. Secondary suppression is applied to the item which relates to the second smallest number of holdings.
Source:
DEFRA Survey of Agriculture and Horticulture—June 2010

Type
Written question
Reference
122102; 551 cc37-45W
Session
2012-13
Contains statistics
Yes
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