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Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

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Andrew George: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many orchards there were in each year since 1997, broken down by county; and what their acreage was. [140712] Mr. Bradshaw: The following figures show the number of main holdings in England by county/unitary authority 1997-1999 that recorded an area of commercial or non commercial orchards and the area covered by the orchards in hectares. Data for 2000-2002 is available on the Defra website at the following link: http://www.defra.gov.uk/esg/work htm/publications/ cs/farmstats web/data map links/data menu.htm _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1997 1998 1999 Counties/Unitary Orchard Area Hdgs with Orchard Area Hdgs with Orchard Area Hdgs with Authorities (Ha) Orchards (Ha) Orchards (Ha) Orchards Hartlepool and 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- Stockton-on-Tees South Teeside 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- Darlington 0 0 1-- 1-- 0 0 Durham CC 1 6 1 8 1 6 Northumberland 3 7 3 7 1 9 Tyneside 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sunderland 0 0 0 0 0 0 West Cumbria 4 10 10 10 3 9 East Cumbria 11 15 15 19 14 27 Halton and Warrington 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- Cheshire CC 25 26 27 31 29 41 Greater Manchester South 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- Greater Manchester North 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- Blackburn with Darwen 0 0 0 0 0 0 Blackpool 0 0 0 0 0 0 Lancashire CC 10 27 16 33 10 27 East Merseyside 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- Liverpool 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sefton 1-- 1--- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- Wirral 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- Kingston Upon Hull, City 0 0 0 0 0 0 of East Riding of Yorkshire 4 10 9 15 7 13 North and North East 2 6 5 7 1 7 Lincolnshire York 3 8 3 8 2 5 North Yorkshire CC 15 36 25 48 17 47 Barnsley, Doncaster and 5 11 5 13 5 13 Rotherham Sheffield 0 0 0 0 1-- 1-- Leeds 3 7 2 5 1-- 1-- Calderdale, Kirklees and 3 8 3 8 2 8 Wakefield Derby 0 0 0 0 0 0 East Derbyshire 9 5 1-- 1-- 1 6 South and West 8 22 11 24 3 16 Derbyshire Nottingham 0 0 0 0 0 0 North Nottinghamshire 52 15 55 23 43 18 South Nottinghamshire 6 9 8 12 5 13 Lester 0 0 0 0 0 0 Leicestershire CC and 9 16 11 19 9 14 Rutland Northamptonshire 40 20 36 24 48 23 Lincolnshire 65 46 101 45 76 43 Herefordshire, County of 3,857 426 3,833 477 4,201 512 Worcestershire 1,588 275 1,619 303 1,609 283 Warwickshire 243 49 236 58 259 54 Telford and Wrekin 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- Shropshire CC 62 50 103 67 105 76 Stoke-on-Trent 0 0 0 0 0 0 Staffordshire CC 15 22 22 23 10 20 Birmingham 0 0 0 0 0 0 Solihull 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- Coventry 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- Dudley and Sandwell 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- Walsall and 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- Wolverhampton Peterborough 0 0 0 0 0 0 Cambridgeshire CC 1,326 150 1,220 153 1,074 140 Norfolk 1,061 197 1,049 191 937 178 Suffolk 1,166 118 1,055 120 948 109 Luton 0 0 0 0 0 0 Bedfordshire CC 31 20 33 21 40 24 Hertfordshire 18 26 23 29 18 31 Southend-on-Sea 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- Thurrock 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- Essex CC 1,176 133 1,099 133 851 119 Inner London-West 0 0 0 0 0 0 Inner London-East 0 0 0 0 0 0 Outer London-East and 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- North East Outer London-South 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- Outer London-West and 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- North West Berkshire 25 20 32 21 35 23 Milton Keynes 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- Buckinghamshire CC 125 37 112 42 105 41 Oxfordshire 142 37 135 43 133 38 Brighton and Hove 0 0 0 0 0 0 East Sussex CC 602 95 600 109 596 98 Surrey 56 38 53 43 65 46 West Sussex 200 60 186 67 156 61 Portsmouth 0 0 0 0 0 0 Southampton 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- Hampshire CC 304 46 305 54 262 55 Isle of Wight 8 13 23 18 11 21 Medway 578 25 508 25 377 22 Kent CC 11,831 722 11,158 747 10,390 700 Bristol, City of 0 0 0 0 0 0 North and N E Somerset, 210 65 210 72 177 73 South Glos Gloucestershire 675 178 681 194 689 205 Swindon 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- Wiltshire CC 20 23 24 27 23 30 Bournemouth and Poole 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- Dorset CC 146 51 187 59 163 64 Somerset 1,124 287 1,152 316 1,158 355 Cornwall and Isles of 90 128 134 160 99 157 Scilly Plymouth 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- Torbay 14 6 15 6 13 6 Devon CC 652 336 740 396 699 453 England 27,698 3,995 26,960 4,393 25,524 4,389 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Denotes that the data has been treated to avoid disclosure of information relating to individual holdings. Source: June Agricultural Census

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

415 c228-30W; 140712

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Crops Agriculture Land use Fruit Trees Arable farming

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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