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Farms: Finance

Commons · Question 30977 · Tabled 12 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 25 Feb 2025

Question

Asked by Damian Hinds

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the average return on capital employed of family-owned farms in (a) England and (b) the UK.

Answer

Answered by Daniel Zeichner, 25 Feb 2025

Return on Capital Employed (ROCE) for family-owned farms is not available. Data are collected at the commercial farm business level by the Farm Business Survey. The survey does not collect information on whether farms are family-owned so it is not possibl...