Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department holds data on the number of farm holdings in every constituency.

Defra does not hold data on the number of farm holdings in every constituency because not all farms are required to register with the department. Based on the farms which are registered with Defra for either subsidy purposes or for livestock keeping requirements, we can produce statistical estimates of the number of farms which have significant levels of farming activity in each constituency.