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<p><del class="ministerial">This information is not held centrally.</del><ins class="ministerial">Records
held by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) show that in
1997 a total area of 119,977 hectares was held for smallholdings purposes by local
authorities in England. Data on land held for smallholdings purposes by individual
local authorities in 1997 is unavailable. A recent report published by Defra records
that, at 31 March 2018, the total area of land held by 43 reporting smallholdings
authorities in England was 89,020 hectares (for the whole estate), of which 83,600
hectares were let as smallholdings (for 40 reporting authorities).</ins></p>
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