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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish a breakdown of the number of farmers in (a) England and (b) Wales in each year since 2010.

Statistics on the number of farmers (including full time, part time; and farmers, partners, directors and spouses) are available for England at Agricultural workforce in England at 1 June - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Agriculture is a devolved matter so Defra are only responsible for collecting data on English farms.