Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people were employed in the agricultural sector in Wales in (1) 1991, (2) 2000, (3) 2010, and (4) 2019.

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have therefore asked the Authority to respond.

Professor Sir Ian Diamond | National Statistician

The Lord Roberts of Llandudno

House of Lords

London

SW1A 0PW

05 February 2021

Dear Lord Roberts,

As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking how many people were employed in the agricultural sector in Wales in (1) 1991, (2) 2000, (3) 2010, and (4) 2019 (HL12843).

Agricultural employment estimates are produced using a combination of DEFRA surveys and Office for National Statistics (ONS) employment surveys. Employment estimates by year, industry and geographic location are available to download on the employment surveys datasets area of NOMIS[1].

Table 1 below shows agricultural employment in Wales in 1991, 2000, 2010 and 2019.

Table 1: Agricultural employment in Wales[2]

Yours sincerely,

Professor Sir Ian Diamond

[1] https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/query/select/getdatasetbytheme.asp?opt=3&theme=&subgrp=

[2] Numbers are rounded to the nearest thousand

[3] ONS source is the Annual Employment Survey

[4] ONS source is the Annual Business Inquiry

[5] ONS source is the Business Register Employment Survey