2. 8. Speculation in Agricultural Land Defence Regulation 62(4)(### In England and Wales 458 applications, covering 545 tenanci### have been received for the Minister's consent to notices to quit give### persons who have purchased agricultural land since the outbreak of wa### Consent has been given in respect of 293 applications and refused in ### cases. Only a very small minority of the applications were cases of speculation, which in its worst aspects has been largely stopped by th Defence Regulation.