Mr. Maples:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when he plans to publish the results of the first round of bids for funding under his Department’s property-level protection grant schemes. [282019]
Huw Irranca-Davies:
The results for the first round of grants to help people protect their homes against flooding were announced by the Secretary of State on 25 June.
Livestock
Tim Farron:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many livestock farms there were in each county in each year since 1997. [281991]
Jim Fitzpatrick:
The number of livestock holdings by county/unitary authority in England 1997 to 2008 is shown on the following tables. Livestock holdings are those holding types where livestock is the main activity and cover dairy, specialist pigs, specialist poultry, grazing livestock in both lowland and less favoured areas and mixed holdings. Holdings designated as mixed are included as these are holdings with a mixture of crops and livestock where neither activity is dominant.
Figures prior to 2000 include main holdings only; from 2000 onwards all holdings are included.
Table 1: Number of holdings where livestock is the predominant activity 1997-2002
Counties/unitary authorities
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees
92
85
93
91
93
97
South Teesside
98
97
97
101
114
113
Darlington
105
105
102
101
89
89
Durham CC
1,290
1,249
1,269
1,259
1,132
1,314
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Northumberland
1,589
1,542
1,592
1,504
1,367
1,482
Tyneside
66
61
65
65
76
79
Sunderland
13
13
15
14
15
14
West Cumbria
1,643
1,619
1,626
1,621
1,085
1,587
East Cumbria
3,621
3,582
3,542
3,428
2,473
3,358
Halton and Warrington
57
56
60
60
60
61
Cheshire CC
2,513
2,470
2,461
2,461
2,463
2,498
Greater Manchester South
169
162
173
179
193
194
Greater Manchester North
544
537
521
520
553
557
Blackburn with Darwen
142
137
132
131
137
143
Blackpool
*
*
*
6
7
8
Lancashire CC
3,057
3,027
2,991
3,121
3,113
3,174
East Merseyside
36
37
34
36
37
42
Liverpool
*
*
*
*
*
5
Sefton
17
18
16
14
19
24
Wirral
41
38
41
45
50
51
Kingston upon Hull, City of
*
*
*
*
*
*
East Riding of Yorkshire
787
752
750
792
804
840
North and North East Lincolnshire
145
158
147
182
209
217
York
124
124
122
127
132
134
North Yorkshire CC
4,945
4,925
4,936
5,009
4,892
5,124
Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham
447
419
418
460
496
512
Sheffield
157
155
151
161
169
179
Bradford
448
442
439
462
494
510
Leeds
229
220
221
229
229
246
Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield
1,017
1,013
1,000
1,098
1,164
1,212
Derby
15
15
17
10
12
13
East Derbyshire
409
400
398
424
449
451
South and West Derbyshire
2,137
2,110
2,117
2,036
2,122
2,167
Nottingham
*
*
*
*
5
5
North Nottinghamshire
356
362
352
411
438
460
South Nottinghamshire
225
225
226
252
262
262
Leicester
*
*
*
*
*
*
Leicestershire CC and Rutland
1,490
1,433
1,437
1,388
1,445
1,480
Northamptonshire
888
865
853
921
926
928
Lincolnshire
944
946
950
1,047
1,143
1,235
Herefordshire, County of
2,136
2,112
2,090
2,197
1,969
2,075
Worcestershire
1,435
1,412
1,426
1,471
1,401
1,512
Warwickshire
1,147
1,139
1,137
1,167
1,143
1,150
Telford and Wrekin
107
108
111
124
136
136
Shropshire CC
3,048
3,010
3,040
3,117
3,072
3,176
Stoke-on-Trent
33
33
33
30
34
40
Staffordshire CC
3,066
3,017
2,990
3,014
3,003
3,117
Birmingham
11
10
13
12
9
10
Solihull
114
111
115
109
108
108
Coventry
28
27
30
33
33
37
Dudley and Sandwell
19
20
23
22
21
23
Walsall and Wolverhampton
25
20
25
26
23
21
Peterborough
26
29
28
27
32
42
Cambridgeshire CC
318
321
314
326
387
419
Norfolk
1,228
1,272
1,246
1,368
1,523
1,613
Suffolk
857
851
863
967
1,024
1,088
Luton
*
*
*
*
*
*
Bedfordshire CC
244
243
239
244
275
298
Hertfordshire
333
330
315
325
371
379
Southend-on-Sea
*
*
*
0
0
0
Thurrock
39
40
36
35
40
41
Essex CC
630
627
617
666
773
797
Inner London—west
0
0
0
0
*
*
Inner London—east
*
*
*
*
*
8
Outer London—east and north-east
29
27
24
28
30
33
Outer London—south
38
37
40
29
35
34
Outer London—west and north-west
37
38
39
35
36
33
Berkshire
335
349
348
324
339
348
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Milton Keynes
75
84
81
78
80
80
Buckinghamshire CC
807
811
844
793
821
823
Oxfordshire
815
819
850
858
903
926
Brighton and Hove
9
11
11
12
11
11
East Sussex CC
1,174
1,181
1,235
1,177
1,249
1,289
Surrey
681
662
697
683
750
775
West Sussex
825
804
805
774
844
868
Portsmouth
*
*
*
*
*
*
Southampton
10
11
12
9
14
13
Hampshire CC
1,187
1,212
1,258
1,265
1,382
1,438
Isle of Wight
255
262
267
251
272
275
Medway
15
18
18
19
23
25
Kent CC
1,366
1,343
1,416
1,433
1,512
1,612
Bristol, City of
7
6
7
13
17
16
N. and N.E. Somerset, South Glos.
1,145
1,123
1,133
1,180
1,232
1,253
Gloucestershire
1,910
1,881
1,894
1,939
1,779
1,984
Swindon
87
86
86
83
92
95
Wiltshire CC
1,544
1,508
1,516
1,540
1,608
1,651
Bournemouth and Poole
15
14
16
15
16
14
Dorset CC
1,892
1,865
1,865
1,919
1,962
1,966
Somerset
3,566
3,488
3,533
3,656
3,740
3,840
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
4,407
4,304
4,262
4,304
4,331
4,391
Plymouth
27
23
22
13
15
15
Torbay
26
23
23
21
23
23
Devon CC
8,202
8,062
8,068
7,655
7,118
7,809
England
75,210
74,204
74,442
75,169
74,095
78,608
Notes:
1. Livestock holdings are those holding types where livestock is the main activity. Holdings designated as mixed are also included, these are holdings with a mixture of crops and livestock where neither activity is dominant.
2. * denotes data that have been suppressed to protect the confidentiality of individual holdings.
3. Data for 1997 are for main holdings only. From 2000 onwards all holdings are included. Source:
June Agriculture Survey
