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Dr. David Clark
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give the numbers of (a) farmers and (b) farm workers employed in each region of Scotland in June 1991.
Mr. Michael Forsyth
The number of farmers, spouses doing farm work and farm workers employed on main agricultural holdings in June 1991, by local authority region, is shown in the table.
| Number at June 1991 | |||
| Region | Farmers | Spouses doing farm work | Farmworkers |
| Borders | 1,321 | 561 | 2,427 |
| Central | 783 | 371 | 978 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 2,372 | 1,157 | 3,784 |
| Fife | 759 | 328 | 1,687 |
| Grampian | 4,737 | 1,947 | 4,911 |
| Highland | 3,246 | 1,343 | 1,957 |
| Lothian | 747 | 301 | 1,809 |
| Strathclyde | 4,232 | 2,201 | 5,170 |
| Tayside | 2,081 | 833 | 3,421 |
| Islands | 3,120 | 1,351 | 1,169 |
| Scotland | 23,398 | 10,393 | 27,313 |
Note: These figures are not comparable with those for previous years due to a change in the basis of the figures in 1991 which had the effect of adding a net 3,400 holdings to the main holdings list. This resulted in an increase in 1991 of some 2,300 occupiers, 800 spouses and 800 farmworkers compared with figures on the previous basis.