asked the Minister of Labour the total number of wage earners, regular and casual, respectively, engaged in agriculture in each of the 13 Welsh counties during the past five years.

Statistics of employees engaged in agriculture are not readily available by separate counties nor is it possible to identify regular and casual wage earners. The following are the were employed in each quarter in 1953 in new houses, industrial building, agricultural building, school building, repair work and all other forms of building work, respectively.

Following is the information:estimated numbers of insured employees engaged in agriculture in Wales and Monmouthshire at the end of May in each of the years 1948 to 1953.

asked the Minister of Labour how the figures of unemployment among regular and casual agricultural workers in each of the 13 Welsh counties compare with the incidence of similar conditions in each of the previous five years.

Statistics are not readily available by separate counties nor is it possible to identify regular and casual workers. The following table shows the numbers of workers, whose last employment was in agriculture, registered as unemployed in Wales and Monmouth-shire at one date in January and July in each of the years 1949 to 1953 and in January, 1954.