Common Land: Rochdale

Paul Rowen
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what proportion of land in Rochdale constituency is common land.

Mr. Ian Austin
Registers of common land are held by local authorities. However, data gathered from the registers by the Countryside Agency in 2001 show that, at that time, 24.5 per cent. of land in the Rochdale parliamentary constituency was registered common land.