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date	17/01/2023
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 funding was released from the Basic Payment Scheme following the reduction of direct payments to farmers in England in the (a) 2021-22 and (b) 2022-23 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Witney
tabling member printed	Robert Courts
uin	125434
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2023 answer text <p>Applying reductions to Direct Payments frees up money to be spent on financial assistance under our other schemes for farmers and land managers. As set out in our Future Farming and Countryside Programme annual report, published in October 2022, we spent £1.654 billion on Direct Payments in financial year 2021 to 2022. That was part of a total spend of £2.294 billion on existing farming schemes and our new financial assistance schemes, as set out in that report.</p><p>Information about spend on Direct Payments and financial assistance under our other schemes for financial year 2022 to 2023 will be included in an annual report to be published later this year.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 24/01/2023 15:01:05 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts

1566232

registered interest
date	12/01/2023
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 estimate she has made of the number of payments made to farmers by the Rural Payments Agency.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	902965
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2023 answer text <p>By 31 December, the Rural Payments Agency had made over 107,000 payments worth more than £1.6 billion across the Basic Payments, Countryside Stewardship and Environmental Stewardship schemes. This means that 97.9% of farmers had received at least one payment during the first month of the opening of the payment window.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 12/01/2023 15:10:44 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1539046

registered interest
date	03/11/2022
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 the level of Basic Payment Scheme funding was in (a) 2021 and (b) 2022; and whether this was a reduction on the level of funding in previous years.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	78670
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2023 answer text <p>£1,625 million and £1,371 million were available to be claimed and paid for the 2021 and 2022 BPS scheme years respectively. We have already set out plans for progressive reductions from 2021 onwards to all BPS payments, increasing payments for Countryside Stewardship and new Environmental Land Management schemes over the same period. Details of progressive reductions published online can be found here: Funding for farmers and land managers - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 18/01/2023 11:11:34 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1524098

registered interest
date	19/10/2022
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 in total on direct payments broken down by payments (a) under £30,000, (b) £30,000-£50,000, (c) £50,000-£150,000 and (iv) more than £150,000 in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	67056
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2022 answer text <p>The table below sets out the number of Direct Payments made over the last five full scheme years.</p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Grouping</strong></p></td><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Scheme Year</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Under £30K</p></td><td><p>68,518</p></td><td><p>67,328</p></td><td><p>67,158</p></td><td><p>67,089</p></td><td><p>68,401</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£30K - £50K</p></td><td><p>8,241</p></td><td><p>8,218</p></td><td><p>8,250</p></td><td><p>8,197</p></td><td><p>8,182</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£50K - £150K</p></td><td><p>7,341</p></td><td><p>7,445</p></td><td><p>7,499</p></td><td><p>7,690</p></td><td><p>6,977</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>More than £150K</p></td><td><p>1,038</p></td><td><p>1,055</p></td><td><p>1,090</p></td><td><p>1,133</p></td><td><p>743</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>85,138</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>84,046</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>83,997</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>84,109</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>84,303</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 08/11/2022 15:38:15 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner