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1126147

	registered interest
	date	13/05/2019
	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	Countryside Stewardship Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the Rural Payments Agency will deliver outstanding countryside stewardship payments in full.
	tabling member constituency	Somerton and Frome
	tabling member printed	David Warburton
	uin	253688
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) took on responsibility for Countryside Stewardship and Environmental Stewardship in October 2018, and is simplifying the administration of the schemes as far as possible under the current EU system by streamlining processes, making changes to IT systems and boosting the workforce to speed up processing.</p><p> </p><p>All eligible Countryside Stewardship 2016 and 2017 claims have received a payment apart from exceptional cases, for example, those that cannot be paid for legal reasons such as probate. Any claim that was not paid a 2018 advance payment by the end of March was issued a bridging payment in early April.</p><p> </p><p>The RPA is on track to meet its commitment to complete 95% of 2018 final payments on claims by the end of July.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 21/05/2019 12:27:53 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	4526 label Biography information for David Warburton

1110293

	registered interest
	date	08/04/2019
	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	Countryside Stewardship Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many 2019 countryside stewardship start date agreement holders and applicants are still awaiting their agreement offer.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	241999
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2019 answer text <p>99% of 2019 Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier and Mid Tier agreement offers have been issued to applicants. There are 7 Higher Tier and 60 Mid Tier offers yet to be made to applicants. The Rural Payments Agency is in contact with these applicants.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 12/04/2019 15:11:52 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1110300

	registered interest
	date	08/04/2019
	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	Countryside Stewardship Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many Higher Tier Countryside Stewardship agreements Natural England plans to support in 2019; and how that figure compares with the level of ambition set out for the scheme in 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	242005
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2019 answer text <p>When Countryside Stewardship was launched in 2015 Defra and Natural England set an ambition of delivering 500 new Higher Tier agreements each year.</p><p> </p><p>There have been four agreement rounds since then and there are currently 2,253 live Higher Tier agreements plus a further 782 woodland only agreements. Therefore, the ambition has been exceeded. For the current 2019/20 year the ambition is to deliver 400 new agreements. In addition to this we are extending a number of the expiring Environmental Stewardship Higher Level Stewardship agreements which are performing well in terms of meeting their environmental outcomes in Priority Habitat and Site of Special Scientific Interest areas.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 16/04/2019 10:55:47 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1105615

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2019
	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	Countryside Stewardship Scheme
	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 estimate he has made of the number of countryside stewardship payments that are more than one year late broken down by region.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	237587
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>Information at a regional level is not held centrally. All eligible annual revenue claims for 2015 to 2017 have received a payment, with the exception of those held for legal reasons such as probate. Payments for 2018 are underway. There is no regulatory deadline for Countryside Stewardship 2018 revenue payments; we advise most claimants to expect a payment within 12 months. 95% of claims will receive an advance payment by April 2019. There are no 2018 payments more than one year outstanding.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 01/04/2019 14:57:38 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1105620

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2019
	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	Countryside Stewardship Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many initial application packs for Countryside Stewardship have been sent to (a) farmers and (b) landowners in each month in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	237798
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>Application packs are not issued all-year round. The Countryside Stewardship application window normally runs between February and May for High Tier and between February and July for Mid-Tier. Information on what month the pack was issued, and whether the requestor is a farmer or a landowner, is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>The following number of application packs have been issued annually:-</p><p> </p><p>2019: 4,006 (to date)</p><p>2018: 12,346</p><p>2017: 10,595</p><p>2016: 8,923</p><p>2015: 5,898</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 01/04/2019 15:04:27 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1079475

	registered interest
	date	28/02/2019
	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	Countryside Stewardship Scheme
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many farmers are awaiting Countryside Stewardship payments from 2018.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Byford
	uin	HL14136
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2019 answer text <p>Payments for 2018 Countryside Stewardship claims are underway and 20% of eligible agreement holders have received their advance payment. The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) is working towards paying 95% of 2018 advance payments by the end of March and will issue bridging payments, in early April, to eligible agreement holders who have not received a payment by the end of March. In addition the RPA is aiming to pay 95% of eligible final payments by the end of July 2019.</p><p> </p><p>The RPA took on administration of Countryside Stewardship in October 2018 and is continuing to simplify the administration of the scheme as far as possible under the current EU system.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 14/03/2019 16:39:59 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	3343 label Biography information for Baroness Byford

1056502

	registered interest
	date	06/02/2019
	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	Countryside Stewardship Scheme
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether payments to participants in the Countryside Stewardship scheme have been delayed; and if so for what reason.
	tabling member printed	Lord Willoughby de Broke
	uin	HL13549
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>Over 99% of Countryside Stewardship participants have received their payment for 2017 claims and payments for 2018 claims are underway. The Rural Payments Agency took on administration of Countryside Stewardship in October 2018 and is continuing to simplify the administration of the scheme as far as possible under the current EU system, streamlining processes and boosting the workforce to speed up processing.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 18/02/2019 11:44:31 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	1775 label Biography information for Lord Willoughby de Broke

931104

	registered interest
	date	25/06/2018
	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	Countryside Stewardship Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reason the Rural Payments Agency failed to make full payments to applicants of the Countryside Stewardship Scheme with an agreement starting on 1 January 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	157116
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>Natural England (NE), rather than the Rural Payments Agency (RPA), currently administer the Countryside Stewardship Scheme. That activity, together with that for Environmental Stewardship, will transfer to the RPA later this year. Around 83% of 2017 Countryside Stewardship claimants have so far received either a full or advance payment. Bridging payments are now being made to the remaining 17% of agreement holders. Performance has fallen well short of expectations on the delivery of 2017 payments. Defra, alongside its delivery bodies, is committed to resolving this as quickly as possible.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 28/06/2018 11:26:40 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

931105

	registered interest
	date	25/06/2018
	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	Countryside Stewardship Scheme
	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 the cost was to his Department of issuing bridging payments to applicants of the Countryside Stewardship Scheme who have not received full payments on their 1 January 2017 applications.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	157117
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>A bridging payment is an advance funded by the UK Exchequer in advance of the full year payment. Customers will receive 75% of the current estimated value of their Countryside Stewardship 2017 claim. When the balance payment is made, the total amount paid is subject to the usual EU co-funding arrangements and is reimbursed from the EU budget; there is therefore no additional cost to the UK Exchequer budget.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 28/06/2018 15:17:20 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

931106

	registered interest
	date	25/06/2018
	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	Countryside Stewardship Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many farmers have indicated they will not continue as participants in the Countryside Stewardship Scheme beyond their current agreement in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	157118
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>That information is not currently available. Those farmers and land managers who have joined Countryside Stewardship since its start in 2016 will have several years of their five year agreements still to run. Agreement holders will clearly make decisions about joining any new scheme towards the end of their current five year agreement.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 28/06/2018 11:29:28 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord