To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what was the percentage change in farming incomes in the United Kingdom after taking inflation into account in each year since 1986–87.

Details of farming incomes have recently been published in "Agriculture in the United Kingdom: 1991", a copy of which is in the Library of the House. Indices of the aggregate income from farming in real terms are contained in table 6.4 and indices of average net farm income in real terms by type of farm are shown in the lower part of table 8.1.