PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Agriculture: Seasonal Workers (6 October 2017)

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) non-UK EU and (b) other seasonal agricultural workers who have come to the UK in each of the last five years.

Asked by:
Helen Whately (Conservative)

Until 2016, Defra published data on the estimated number of seasonal agricultural workers in all UK countries in “Agriculture in the UK”, which is a Defra publication. Since 2016, data is published for England only, collected by the June Horticulture and Agriculture Survey. Data from the past 5 years is shown in the table below.

Defra does not collect data on the nationality of those workers.

Seasonal, casual & gang labour	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
UK numbers	67 000	61 000	66 000	67 000	N/A
England-only numbers	44 985	39 203	43 036	44 939	43 894

Answered by:
George Eustice (Conservative)
19 October 2017