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514768

registered interest
date	21/04/2016
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 assessment she has made of the effect on farmers of late payments under the Basic Payment Scheme by the Rural Payments Agency.
tabling member constituency	Workington
tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
uin	35044
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2016 answer text <p>We understand the importance of the Basic Payment Scheme payments to farmers. As of 21 April the Rural Payments Agency had completed the processing of 77,840 claims for 2015. Although the payment window runs from 1 December 2015 to the 30 June 2016, the Agency has announced that those customers who won’t receive a claim payment in April 2016 will be provided a bridging payment. Bridging payments will be made by the end of April.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 26/04/2016 14:31:43 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

513638

registered interest
date	18/04/2016
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 farmers in Stafford constituency who are eligible for payments under the Basic Payments Scheme 2015 had not been paid by 31 March 2016.
tabling member constituency	Stafford
tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
uin	34305
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2016 answer text <p>As of 31 March 2016, the Rural Payments Agency had paid 168 (80%) of the 211 eligible Basic Payment Scheme 2015 claims received in Stafford constituency. To date 191 had been paid and the agency has announced that those customers who do not receive a claim payment in April will be provided a bridging payment. Bridging payments will be around half of their claim value.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 34306 question first answered 27/04/2016 13:33:30 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

513639

registered interest
date	18/04/2016
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 payments under the Basic Payments Scheme 2015 had not been made to farmers in Stafford constituency by the Rural Payments Agency by 31 March 2016.
tabling member constituency	Stafford
tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
uin	34306
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2016 answer text <p>As of 31 March 2016, the Rural Payments Agency had paid 168 (80%) of the 211 eligible Basic Payment Scheme 2015 claims received in Stafford constituency. To date 191 had been paid and the agency has announced that those customers who do not receive a claim payment in April will be provided a bridging payment. Bridging payments will be around half of their claim value.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 34305 question first answered 27/04/2016 13:33:30 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

512986

registered interest
date	14/04/2016
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, when it is planned Dartmoor Farmers who farm on common land will receive payments under the Basic Payment Scheme; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Torridge and West Devon
tabling member printed	Mr Geoffrey Cox
uin	33982
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2016 answer text <p>For those Basic Payment Scheme claims with commons, the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) has faced a particularly difficult challenge as it is necessary to wait until all claimants for a common have had their commons rights validated before the area for each commoner can be established. RPA is working to make the payments for claimants who have not been paid as promptly as possible, including the Dartmoor farmers who farm on Common land.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 19/04/2016 12:27:59 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1508 label Biography information for Sir Geoffrey Cox

512990

registered interest
date	14/04/2016
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 farmers have been subject to penalties for non-compliance with Single Farm Payment Scheme requirements in each of the last five years; and what the total value of those penalties was.
tabling member constituency	North West Leicestershire
tabling member printed	Andrew Bridgen
uin	34071
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2016 answer text <p>The volume of penalties, plus their value for Single Payment Scheme claims, for the last five years of the scheme are below.</p><p>We have not yet finalised information for the 2015 Basic Payment Scheme.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Scheme Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Claimants In Breach</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Value €</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2,703</p></td><td><p>2,489,438</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2,134</p></td><td><p>2,781,039</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>1,574</p></td><td><p>1,704,085</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>1,722</p></td><td><p>2,594,023</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>1,493</p></td><td><p>2,329,495</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 20/04/2016 13:12:21 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4133 label Biography information for Andrew Bridgen

506282

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
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 total amount of disallowance penalties was imposed on the UK by the EU in each of the last 10 years; and what contingency funding has been set aside for disallowance penalties in each of the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Berwick-upon-Tweed
tabling member printed	Mrs Anne-Marie Trevelyan
uin	33004
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2016 answer text <p>The amount Defra has accrued for each of the last ten financial years following the conclusion of EU audits is shown in the table below. These figures relate to a number of different Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) schemes over a number of historical scheme years as disallowance is paid in arrears.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="10"><p>Disallowance (*) £millions</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>05/06</p></td><td><p>06/07</p></td><td><p>07/08</p></td><td><p>08/09</p></td><td><p>09/10</p></td><td><p>10/11</p></td><td><p>11/12</p></td><td><p>12/13</p></td><td><p>13/14</p></td><td><p>14/15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>63</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>162**</p></td><td><p>181</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>81</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>(*) Reflects the sums the European Commission has ruled cannot be reimbursed (i.e. the amounts they have “disallowed”).</p><p> </p><p>(**) Includes £11million in disallowance relating to Northern Ireland. All other figures relate to England only. The Devolved Administrations are now responsible for disallowance relating to their administration of the CAP.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s Annual Report and Accounts in 2014/15 provides provisions of £64.5million for future disallowance related to historical audits. Future disallowance penalties are difficult to predict. However, the Department’s aim is to reduce disallowance to as low a level as possible and we expect a return to disallowance of about 2 per cent of scheme value by 2019.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 33012 question first answered 18/04/2016 13:40:48 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan

506458

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
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 contingency funding her Department has set aside for future disallowance penalties imposed by the EU on the UK in each of the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Berwick-upon-Tweed
tabling member printed	Mrs Anne-Marie Trevelyan
uin	33012
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2016 answer text <p>The amount Defra has accrued for each of the last ten financial years following the conclusion of EU audits is shown in the table below. These figures relate to a number of different Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) schemes over a number of historical scheme years as disallowance is paid in arrears.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="10"><p>Disallowance (*) £millions</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>05/06</p></td><td><p>06/07</p></td><td><p>07/08</p></td><td><p>08/09</p></td><td><p>09/10</p></td><td><p>10/11</p></td><td><p>11/12</p></td><td><p>12/13</p></td><td><p>13/14</p></td><td><p>14/15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>63</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>162**</p></td><td><p>181</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>81</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>(*) Reflects the sums the European Commission has ruled cannot be reimbursed (i.e. the amounts they have “disallowed”).</p><p> </p><p>(**) Includes £11million in disallowance relating to Northern Ireland. All other figures relate to England only. The Devolved Administrations are now responsible for disallowance relating to their administration of the CAP.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s Annual Report and Accounts in 2014/15 provides provisions of £64.5million for future disallowance related to historical audits. Future disallowance penalties are difficult to predict. However, the Department’s aim is to reduce disallowance to as low a level as possible and we expect a return to disallowance of about 2 per cent of scheme value by 2019.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 33004 question first answered 18/04/2016 13:40:48 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan

506460

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
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 assessment she has made of the potential effect of the UK leaving the EU on farmers in receipt of payments from the Common Agricultural Policy.
tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
tabling member printed	Kevin Hollinrake
uin	32771
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2016 answer text <p>At the February European Council, the Government negotiated a new settlement, giving the United Kingdom a special status in a reformed European Union. The Government's position is that the UK will be stronger, safer and better off remaining in a reformed EU.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 18/04/2016 16:58:55 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake

484382

registered interest
date	22/03/2016
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 estimate she has made of the amount of Common Agricultural Policy funding that (a) Scotland, (b) Wales and (c) Northern Ireland will receive in each year between 2014 and 2020.
tabling member constituency	Arundel and South Downs
tabling member printed	Nick Herbert
uin	32054
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2016 answer text <p>The tables in the attached show, for Pillar 1 (direct payments) and Pillar 2 of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), allocations for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 01/04/2016 09:27:54 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice attachment 1 file name PQ 32054 CAP Pillar 1 and 2 allocations.pdf title PQ32054 - CAP Pillar 1 and Pillar 2 allocations
tabling member	1479 label Biography information for Lord Herbert of South Downs

483147

registered interest
date	21/03/2016
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 support her Department provides to farmers who are waiting to receive a single farm payment.
tabling member constituency	Chippenham
tabling member printed	Michelle Donelan
uin	31922
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2016 answer text <p>The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) started paying Basic Payment Scheme claims from the opening of the payment window on 1 December 2015. As of 21 March 2016, the RPA has paid 72,807 claimants approximately £1.15 billion and remains focused on paying the remainder of claims as promptly as possible.</p><p>The RPA has an established financial hardship process and is working with a range of farming help organisations to see what further support could be offered. Following hardship case referrals from these organisations, over 420 farmers have received RPA hardship payments, amounting to more than £6.8 million.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 31/03/2016 08:28:22 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan