asked the Secretary of State for Wales how many full-time agricultural workers there are in Wales; and how many there were on 1 January 1970, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983 and 1984, respectively; and if he will make a statement.

Details of the numbers of workers on agricultural holdings are collected in a full census in June and a sample census in December each year The numbers of persons recorded as working full-time on agricultural holdings in Wales in the years requested were as follows:

	June	December
1970	32,280	34.946
1980	33,351	33.257
1981	33,339	32,704
1982	32,851	32.558
1983	32,171	32,487
1984	32,707	32,307

Figures exclude wives of farmers and directors; and salaried managers for which no data on full-time working are available The 1970 figure is thought to be affected by definitional changes at that time.