House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 08 May 2007 (pt 0006)

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Mr. Paice: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many people were employed in agriculture in each of the last 10 years, broken down by county. [135239]

Barry Gardiner: Total agricultural and horticultural employees and total labour force and by county in England for 2002 to 2006 can be found in the following tables.

These are the figures which are most readily available.

Notes:

(a) Employees are salaried managers, full, part-time and casual workers, (paid and unpaid).

(b) Since the annual June survey is now based on a sample estimates have been made for those not surveyed or not responding.

Source:

June Agricultural Survey

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Total agricultural and horticultural labour force in England by county/unitary authority
	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees	564	543	544	497	499
South Teesside	515	509	533	531	481
Darlington	509	⁽¹⁾—	501	517	473
Durham CC	4,243	4,084	4,193	4,118	4,155
Northumberland	5,892	5,707	5,536	5,535	5,521
Tyneside	470	437	470	442	427
Sunderland	172	⁽¹⁾—	171	184	169
West Cumbria	4,311	4,185	4,311	4,363	4,497
East Cumbria	8,956	8,711	8,839	8,777	8,825
Halton and Warrington	649	627	659	691	529
Cheshire CC	9,173	8,783	9,017	9,048	8,834
Greater Manchester South	⁽¹⁾—	993	1,002	903	906
Greater Manchester North	1,923	1,738	1,809	1,822	1,863
Blackburn with Darwen	362	⁽¹⁾—	355	347	356
Blackpool	79	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	68	61
Lancashire CC	12,605	11,733	12,010	11,934	11,890
East Merseyside	517	508	534	486	569
Liverpool	⁽¹⁾—	80	87	⁽¹⁾—	90
Sefton	303	288	298	296	342
Wirral	275	⁽¹⁾—	281	⁽¹⁾—	255
Kingston Upon Hull, City of	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	20
East Riding of Yorkshire	7,859	⁽¹⁾—	7,736	7,440	7,285
North and North East Lincolnshire	2,179	2,110	2,211	2,114	1,909
York	789	⁽¹⁾—	736	⁽¹⁾—	711
North Yorkshire CC	19,731	19,000	19,557	19,234	19,140
Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham	2,828	2,686	2,758	2,666	2,674
Sheffield	580	544	579	583	572
Bradford	1,257	1,199	1,247	1,283	1,231
Leeds	1,462	1,349	1,412	1,340	1,339
Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield	3,705	3,443	3,626	3,610	3,634
Derby	55	56	56	58	69
East Derbyshire	1,621	1,536	1,582	1,560	1,548
South and West Derbyshire	6,163	5,920	6,132	6,137	6,198
Nottingham	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	25	⁽¹⁾—
North Nottinghamshire	3,609	3,541	3,682	3,760	3,526
South Nottinghamshire	⁽¹⁾—	1,758	1,810	1,756	1,724
Leicester	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	49	41	24
Leicestershire CC and Rutland	6,477	6,318	6,486	6,490	6,450
Northamptonshire	4,703	4,485	4,615	4,509	4,632
Lincolnshire	17,462	16,763	16,840	16,787	16,103
Herefordshire, County of	9,048	⁽¹⁾—	9,370	⁽¹⁾—	11,024
Worcestershire	7,840	7,558	8,015	7,716	7,513
Warwickshire	6,695	6,381	6,726	6,504	6,247
Telford and Wrekin	787	748	772	800	808
Shropshire CC	10,887	10,513	10,985	11,120	11,022
Stoke-on-Trent	104	⁽¹⁾—	109	⁽¹⁾—	123
Staffordshire CC	10,475	9,599	9,851	10,074	9,887
Birmingham	70	73	88	139	102
Solihull	432	⁽¹⁾—	419	⁽¹⁾—	403
Coventry	138	⁽¹⁾—	148	⁽¹⁾—	138
Dudley and Sandwell	124	122	133	141	106
Walsall and Wolverhampton	180	165	168	158	162
Peterborough	573	545	567	546	564
Cambridgeshire CC	8,614	8,031	8,541	8,649	8,584
Norfolk	15,871	15,048	15,518	14,652	13,575
Suffolk	10,785	10,208	10,683	10,621	10,293
Luton	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—
Bedfordshire CC	3,089	2,627	2,742	2,704	2,515
Hertfordshire	3,399	3,086	3,176	3,047	3,011
Southend-on-Sea	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—
Thurrock	255	⁽¹⁾—	225	⁽¹⁾—	206
Essex CC	10,119	9,590	9,679	9,576	9,395
Inner London—West	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—
Inner London—East	59	⁽¹⁾—	76	⁽¹⁾—	63
Outer London—East and North East	445	407	457	456	424
Outer London—South	562	486	410	400	369
Outer London—West and North West	240	230	239	232	220
Berkshire	2,218	2,210	2,388	2,511	2,451
Milton Keynes	441	⁽¹⁾—	440	412	456
Buckinghamshire CC	3,693	3,492	3,703	3,742	3,618
Oxfordshire	5,331	5,018	5,212	5,159	5,180
Brighton and Hove	⁽¹⁾—	90	97	⁽¹⁾—	80
East Sussex CC	5,168	4,935	5,129	5,188	5,177
Surrey	4,733	4,317	4,562	4,507	4,524
West Sussex	7,556	7,172	7,376	7,490	7,409
Portsmouth	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	11	⁽¹⁾—
Southampton	49	45	48	48	39
Hampshire CC	9,078	8,850	9,343	9,157	9,015
Isle of Wight	⁽¹⁾—	1,683	1,685	1,652	1,607
Medway	480	471	459	⁽¹⁾—	659
Kent CC	15,946	14,934	16,118	15,656	16,424
Bristol, City of	105	81	93	97	82
North and N E Somerset, South Gloucester	4,376	4,156	4,290	4,302	4,284
Gloucestershire	8,215	7,845	8,192	8,138	8,110
Swindon	394	⁽¹⁾—	372	⁽¹⁾—	376
Wiltshire CC	7,072	6,716	6,870	6,899	6,847
Bournemouth and Poole	76	74	78	81	65
Dorset CC	7,427	7,273	7,707	7,657	7,493
Somerset	13,225	12,514	13,043	13,147	13,117
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly	14,808	14,116	14,780	14,342	14,246
Plymouth	39	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	45
Torbay	81	⁽¹⁾—	79	90	102
Devon CC	23,898	22,966	23,857	23,872	23,241
England	371,824	354,381	367,490	364,891	361 ,027
⁽¹⁾ Suppressed to prevent disclosure of information about individual holdings. Note : Data for 2002, 2003 and 2005 are compiled from a large published datasets; these are treated each year to ensure confidentiality across every geographical level from country to ward hence the differing pattern of suppression in those years. Source: June Agricultural Survey

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