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Opium: Crops

Volume 472: debated on Wednesday 20 February 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 21 November 2007, Official Report, columns 868-69W, on opium: crops, if she will break down the figures by the location in which the crops were grown. (181714)

[holding answer 24 January 2008]: During 2007, opium poppies were grown at 67 locations in nine counties, as shown in the following table.

County

Number of growing sites

Total area (ha)

Berkshire

4

239.92

Buckinghamshire

1

24.80

Dorset

6

206.06

Hampshire

26

1,238.68

Leicestershire

1

16.13

Lincolnshire

9

445.61

Northamptonshire

1

63.88

Oxfordshire

10

281.71

Wiltshire

9

228.19