Agriculture: National Income

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the gross value added (GVA) of farming in (a) Cornwall, (b) the South West and (c) the UK was in each year since 1979; and what proportion of total UK GVA this represented. (144229)

The information available is presented in the following table. Regional data are only available from 1995.

Note that the fall in Agricultural GVA in 2005 is partly a consequence of the introduction of the Single Payment Scheme which is not included in output (as it is decoupled from production) and therefore does not appear in gross value added.

*Agricultural gross value added at basic prices*
	UK	South West	Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
	Value(£ million)	Percentage of total UK GVA	Value(£ million)	Percentage of total UK GVA	Value(£ million)	Percentage of total UK GVA
1979	3,971	2.2	¹—	¹—	¹—	¹—
1980	4,404	2.1	¹—	¹—	¹—	¹—
1981	4,925	2.1	¹—	¹—	¹—	¹—
1982	5,620	2.2	¹—	¹—	¹—	¹—
1983	5,485	2.0	¹—	¹—	¹—	¹—
1984	6,299	2.1	¹—	¹—	¹—	¹—
1985	5,636	1.8	¹—	¹—	¹—	¹—
1986	5,874	1.7	¹—	¹—	¹—	¹—
1987	6,215	1.7	¹—	¹—	¹—	¹—
1988	6,336	1.5	¹—	¹—	¹—	¹—
1989	7,014	1.5	¹—	¹—	¹—	¹—
1990	7,132	1.4	¹—	¹—	¹—	¹—
1991	7,282	1.4	¹—	¹—	¹—	¹—
1992	7,851	1.4	¹—	¹—	¹—	¹—
1993	8,919	1.5	¹—	¹—	¹—	¹—
1994	9,304	1.5	¹—	¹—	¹—	¹—
1995	10,206	1.6	1,211	0.2	197	0.03
1996	9,911	1.5	1,156	0.2	175	0.03
1997	8,242	1.1	1,023	0.1	153	0.02
1998	7,471	1.0	891	0.1	141	0.02
1999	7,208	0.9	852	0.1	138	0.02
2000	6,700	0.8	759	0.1	121	0.01
2001	6,783	0.8	800	0.1	124	0.01
2002	7,151	0.8	880	0.1	138	0.01
2003	7,881	0.8	963	0.1	162	0.02
2004	7,613	0.7	897	0.1	155	0.01
2005	5,325	0.5	706	0.1	129	0.01
2006	5,580	0.5	²—	²—	²—	²—
¹Not available ² Not yet available

Volume 462: debated on Monday 25 June 2007