To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for South Shields of 27 January, Official Report, column 445, how many planning applications the Ministry (a) considered and (b) objected to in each county in (i) 1981 and (ii) 1990; and if he will make a statement.
This information is not available by county.
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list the number of planning applications he was consulted on in (a) England and (b) Wales for each grade of agricultural land for each year since 1980.
As planning applications can relate to a mixture of grades of agricultural land the records do not show the number of consultations by grade.Information on the total number of consultations in England and Wales for each year since 1980 is as follows:
| Number | |
| 1980 | 1,717 |
| 1981 | 1,893 |
| 1982 | 1,479 |
| 1983 | 1,315 |
| 1984 | 1,583 |
| 1985 | 1,640 |
| 1986 | 2,037 |
| 1987 | 1,618 |
| 1988 | 1,490 |
| 1989 | 1,296 |
| 1990 | 1,439 |