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433977

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2015
	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, how many single farm payments were issued by the Rural Payments Agency on 1 December 2015; and how many of those payments were calculated incorrectly.
	tabling member constituency	North Herefordshire
	tabling member printed	Bill Wiggin
	uin	18712
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>The Secretary of State and I have regular meetings and discussions with the Chief Executive of the Rural Payments Agency (RPA). The Chief Executive of the RPA also attends the department’s weekly Executive Committee.</p><br /><p>Around 33,000 Basic Payment Scheme claims were paid promptly and accurately on 1st December, the first day of the payment window that runs through to 30 June.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 18711 question first answered 11/12/2015 13:57:28 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	1428 label Biography information for Sir Bill Wiggin

522090

	registered interest
	date	26/05/2016
	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, how many claims made under the 2015 Basic Payment Scheme are still outstanding; and when all the those claims will be settled.
	tabling member constituency	The Cotswolds
	tabling member printed	Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
	uin	38616
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2016 answer text <p>The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) estimates that as of 5 June 2016, 86,521 (99%) claimants have received a payment on their 2015 Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) claim. Of these, 82,460 have received a claim payment; 3,936 bridging payments; and 125 a manual hardship payment. There are a number of claims where processing has been completed successfully but they have not resulted in a payment for reasons such as the claim being under minimum claim size, or the Agency awaiting information on probate cases.</p><p> </p><p>The RPA will continue to make top up payments throughout the remainder of the payment window up to the end of June 2016.</p><p> </p><p>While the payment window runs between December and June, the RPA expects to make 90% of payments on eligible claims by the end of December this year and all remaining payments as promptly as possible. As of 5 June the RPA had received 86,581 applications for BPS 2016.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 38617 question first answered 06/06/2016 15:16:34 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	249 label Biography information for Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

522091

	registered interest
	date	26/05/2016
	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, whether she expects all applications made before the deadline for the applications for the 2016 Payment Scheme to be paid this year.
	tabling member constituency	The Cotswolds
	tabling member printed	Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
	uin	38617
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2016 answer text <p>The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) estimates that as of 5 June 2016, 86,521 (99%) claimants have received a payment on their 2015 Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) claim. Of these, 82,460 have received a claim payment; 3,936 bridging payments; and 125 a manual hardship payment. There are a number of claims where processing has been completed successfully but they have not resulted in a payment for reasons such as the claim being under minimum claim size, or the Agency awaiting information on probate cases.</p><p> </p><p>The RPA will continue to make top up payments throughout the remainder of the payment window up to the end of June 2016.</p><p> </p><p>While the payment window runs between December and June, the RPA expects to make 90% of payments on eligible claims by the end of December this year and all remaining payments as promptly as possible. As of 5 June the RPA had received 86,581 applications for BPS 2016.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 38616 question first answered 06/06/2016 15:16:34 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	249 label Biography information for Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

773173

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2017
	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, when his Department plans to publish its review on convergence uplift payments to Scottish farmers.
	tabling member constituency	Ross, Skye and Lochaber
	tabling member printed	Ian Blackford
	uin	108555
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>The Secretary of State received a letter from the member for Dumfries and Galloway requesting a review of intra-UK allocations of funding for agricultural support on 26 October.</p><p>The Secretary of State also met Scottish Cabinet Secretary for the Rural Economy and Connectivity, Fergus Ewing, on 6 November to discuss intra-UK allocations. We will set out next steps in due course.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 20/11/2017 12:41:03 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	4390 label Biography information for Ian Blackford

802993

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2017
	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, whether he plans to match existing levels of Common Agricultural Policy funding after the UK leaves the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff North
	tabling member printed	Anna McMorrin
	uin	118413
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2017 answer text <p>The Government has pledged to continue to commit the same cash total in funds for farm support until the end of this Parliament, expected in 2022. This provides a greater level of security and certainty for farmers and landowners than anywhere else in the EU, where funding is guaranteed only until 2020.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 13/12/2017 18:08:02 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	4632 label Biography information for Anna McMorrin

63246

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2014
	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, how much his Department spent on business support to farmers, excluding Common Agricultural Policy payments in each financial year since 2010-11.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
	tabling member printed	Nicholas Soames
	uin	201946
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p>The Department spent £14.8m in 2013-14 on support to farmers through specific grants. This excludes Common Agricultural Policy payments. Figures relating to the three previous financial years would only be available at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 30/06/2014 15:51:42 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

63640

	registered interest
	date	24/06/2014
	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 appeals process is available for farmers who are subject to deductions from single farm payments for (a) cattle passport contraventions and (b) breaches of the conditions of the Rural Stewardship Scheme in (i) Cambridgeshire and (ii) England; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Peterborough
	tabling member printed	Mr Stewart Jackson
	uin	202096
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Complaints against deductions made by the Rural Payments Agency to a farmer's payments under the Single Payment Scheme should be made to the Agency. Complaints are reviewed within the Agency. If a farmer disagrees with the Agency's final decision, they may ask for an independent review by the Independent Agricultural Appeals Panel, who will make a recommendation to me to make a final decision.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Agency's full complaints procedure is set out online at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/rural-payments-agency/about/complaints-procedure" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/rural-payments-agency/about/complaints-procedure</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Deductions from payments under the Single Payment Scheme are not made in respect of breaches of Environmental Stewardship scheme conditions alone. Where a breach of these conditions is found, an appropriate penalty would be applied in respect of the Environmental Stewardship payments received or due to be received. Natural England, which administers the scheme, has a formal appeals procedure described in section 5.7.4 of the Entry Level Stewardship Handbook, available online at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://publications.naturalengland.org.uk/file/2781958" target="_blank">http://publications.naturalengland.org.uk/file/2781958</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 01/07/2014 11:25:49 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	1551 label Biography information for Lord Jackson of Peterborough

64729

	registered interest
	date	30/06/2014
	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 alternative proposals on the capping of payments to farmers in England were considered beyond the five per cent reduction for basic payments above £150,000.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	203134
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>We put forward proposals for reductions of direct payments to farmers as part of our wider consultation on CAP reform in October 2013. The consultation included estimates for the amounts which would be transferred annually to Rural Development programmes arising from reductions of 5% and 100% (i.e. capping), further analysis was included in the evidence paper published alongside the consultation. These can both be found at consult.defra.gov.uk/agricultural-policy/cap-consultation. We announced in December that reductions would be applied at 5% on amounts in excess of €150,000; however, we no longer take the view, contained in our response to the consultation, that we have no power to make further or alternative reductions at a higher threshold such as €300,000.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 203135 question first answered 07/07/2014 15:47:19 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

64730

	registered interest
	date	30/06/2014
	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, if he will estimate the effect on farmers in England of capping direct payments to farmers and initiating a 15 per cent reduction on payments over £150,000 and a complete cap at payments of £300,000.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	203135
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>We put forward proposals for reductions of direct payments to farmers as part of our wider consultation on CAP reform in October 2013. The consultation included estimates for the amounts which would be transferred annually to Rural Development programmes arising from reductions of 5% and 100% (i.e. capping), further analysis was included in the evidence paper published alongside the consultation. These can both be found at consult.defra.gov.uk/agricultural-policy/cap-consultation. We announced in December that reductions would be applied at 5% on amounts in excess of €150,000; however, we no longer take the view, contained in our response to the consultation, that we have no power to make further or alternative reductions at a higher threshold such as €300,000.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 203134 question first answered 07/07/2014 15:47:19 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

89591

	registered interest
	date	29/08/2014
	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, how many farms in Cumbria which received payments under the (a) Hill Livestock Compensatory Allowance, (b) Sheep Annual Premium Scheme, (c) Hill Farm Allowance and (d) Uplands Entry Level Stewardship Scheme in each of the last 30 years; and what aggregate local payments were made under each scheme in each such year.
	tabling member constituency	Penrith and The Border
	tabling member printed	Rory Stewart
	uin	207462
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Rural Payments Agency does not hold assured data for the time period and area requested. As the majority of these schemes ended some time ago, and a new finance system was introduced in the intervening period, extracting this historic information is not possible.</p><p>The Agency does not hold this level of historic payment information for Uplands Entry Level Stewardship.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 03/09/2014 14:32:36 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart