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Mr. Strang
asked the Secretary of State for Transport how many (a) tractors and (b) combine harvesters were sold in the United Kingdom in each of the past 10 years.
Mrs. Chalker
This information is not available for either category. However, new registrations of vehicles in Great Britain in the taxation class "agricultural tractors" were:
| Year | New registrations |
| 1971 | 22,935 |
| 1972 | 30,170 |
| 1973 | 29,338 |
| 1974 | 27,696 |
| 1975 | 32,137 |
| 1976 | 36,368 |
| 1977 | 33,224 |
| 1978 | 31,890 |
| 1979 | 28,112 |
| 1980 | 20,902 |
| 1981 | 20,382 |
These are published monthly in Business Monitor (MMI), where greater detail may be found.