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Mr. P. Wells
asked the Minister of Agriculture the number of permits of exemption to pay rates below the statutory minimum wage which were current in each county in England and Wales at the latest available date.
Sir T. Dugdale
At 30th September, 1953, the total was 4,344, distributed by agricultural wages committee areas as follows:
| Committee Area | Males | Females |
| Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire | 72 | — |
| Berkshire | 63 | 1 |
| Buckinghamshire | 37 | — |
| Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely | 59 | — |
| Cheshire | 127 | — |
| Cornwall | 83 | — |
| Cumberland and Westmorland | 41 | — |
| Derbyshire | 59 | — |
| Devonshire | 389 | 1 |
| Dorset | 92 | 1 |
| Durham | 37 | — |
| Essex | 209 | — |
| Gloucestershire | 193 | 1 |
| Hampshire and Isle of Wight | 168 | 2 |
| Herefordshire | 64 | — |
| Hertfordshire | 60 | 1 |
| Kent | 260 | 4 |
| Lancashire | 48 | — |
| Leicestershire and Rutland | 68 | 1 |
| Lincolnshire (Holland) | 46 | — |
| Lincolnshire (Kesteven and Lindsey) | 141 | 32 |
| Middlesex | 27 | 2 |
| Monmouthshire | 20 | 1 |
| Norfolk | 151 | 1 |
| Northamptonshire and Soke of Peterborough | 60 | — |
| Northumberland | 32 | — |
| Nottinghamshire | 55 | — |
| Oxfordshire | 49 | 1 |
| Shropshire | 87 | — |
| Somerset | 184 | 1 |
| Staffordshire | 66 | — |
| Suffolk | 140 | — |
| Surrey | 65 | 1 |
| Sussex | 225 | — |
| Warwickshire | 182 | — |
| Wiltshire | 129 | 1 |
| Worcestershire | 71 | 3 |
| Yorkshire, East Riding | 57 | — |
| Yorkshire, North Riding | 45 | — |
| Yorkshire, West Riding | 80 | — |
| Anglesey and Caernarvon | 34 | — |
| Carmarthenshire | 47 | — |
| Denbigh and Flint | 40 | 1 |
| Glamorganshire | 32 | — |
| Merioneth and Montgomeryshire | 39 | 1 |
| Pembroke and Cardigan | 39 | — |
| Radnor and Brecon | 15 | — |
| TOTAL, England and Wales | 4,287 | 57 |