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date	03/03/2016
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Agriculture: Subsidies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent changes the Government has made to the Basic Payment Scheme claims process; and what assessment the Government has made of the effect of those changes on the performance of that scheme.
tabling member constituency	Stafford
tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
uin	29764
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2016 answer text <p>The new Common Agricultural Policy has widely been acknowledged as being more complex and the Rural Payments Agency has had to implement new systems and processes. In the first year of the Basic Payment Scheme, as of 23 February, 70,880 farmers, just over 81% of all eligible claims, have received their 2015 payments, bringing the total paid out for the scheme to £1.11 billion.</p><p>The Rural Payments Agency has already indicated that for 2016 there will be an online Basic Payment Scheme application process supported by online land and entitlement transfers. There will also be a paper application form for those that need it. The agency will work with farmers and agents to support them to submit their applications by the deadline of midnight on Monday 16 May.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 08/03/2016 09:48:32 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

457533

registered interest
date	03/03/2016
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Agriculture: Subsidies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on what date she plans to announce the Basic Payment Scheme claims process for 2016.
tabling member constituency	Stafford
tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
uin	29765
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2016 answer text <p>The Rural Payments Agency is launching the 2016 claim period at the beginning of March and will work with farmers and agents to support them to submit their applications by the deadline of midnight on Monday 16 May.</p><p>The Rural Payments Agency has already indicated that for 2016 there will be an online Basic Payment Scheme application process supported by online land and entitlement transfers. There will be a paper application form for those that need it.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 08/03/2016 09:52:08 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

457534

registered interest
date	03/03/2016
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Agriculture: Subsidies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to ensure (a) people who have not received payments from the Basic Payment Scheme for 2015 will receive those payments by the end of March 2016 and (b) all claimants of that scheme will receive information on how payments have been calculated.
tabling member constituency	Stafford
tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
uin	29763
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2016 answer text <p>The Rural Payments Agency is working to pay the remainder of farmers their Basic Payment Scheme claims as promptly as possible and is aiming to make almost all payments by the end of March. The Secretary of State and I have regular conversations with the CEO of the agency about progress. The agency has been communicating with farmers who have not yet received their payments. Going forward the agency will keep them updated about the likely timing of their payment until they are paid.</p><p>The Rural Payments Agency will support every payment with a paper explanatory claim statement and guidance on how payments have been calculated. These statements started to be issued in February and will continue to go out throughout March.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 08/03/2016 09:36:48 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy