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173186

registered interest
date	12/01/2015
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 much the 50 largest landowners in the UK received from the Single Farm Payment scheme in the last year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Stalybridge and Hyde
tabling member printed	Jonathan Reynolds
uin	220432
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2015 answer text <p>The UK’s 50 largest value claims under the Single Payment Scheme (SPS) totalled £44,424,980 for the EU Financial Year 2013. Information is not available on whether they are landowners or tenants.</p><p>Details of payments made in EU Financial Year 2014 will be published on the UK’s CAP beneficiary website on 31 May 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 19/01/2015 15:39:27 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4119 label Biography information for Jonathan Reynolds

169966

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Agriculture: Subsidies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the likely annual reduction in CAP subsidies to farmers arising from the change to disallow grazing under a solar farm.
tabling member constituency	Bromley and Chislehurst
tabling member printed	Robert Neill
uin	218518
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2014 answer text <p>The total Common Agricultural Policy allocation for the Basic Payment Scheme for England will be unaffected by the change in eligibility of land used for solar panels from 2015. There will be reductions in payments for English farmers who are currently claiming on land on which there are solar panels. In the future, they will not be able to claim BPS payments on this land.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 19/12/2014 10:48:02 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	1601 label Biography information for Sir Robert Neill

169483

registered interest
date	10/12/2014
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 recent assessment she has made of the value for money of payments to farmers under the Common Agricultural Policy.
tabling member constituency	Corby
tabling member printed	Andy Sawford
uin	218000
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>The following documents have been placed in the Library.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In October 2013, alongside the public consultation, Defra published an evidence paper which assessed the impact of the new Common Agricultural Policy and the costs and benefits of payments made to farmers.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://consult.defra.gov.uk/agricultural-policy/cap-consultation" target="_blank">https://consult.defra.gov.uk/agricultural-policy/cap-consultation</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Since then a number of more technical implementation decisions were announced and on 11 December 2014 the Common Agricultural Policy Basic Payment and Support Schemes (England) Regulations 2014 No. 3259 were laid in Parliament. Included in the explanatory memorandum to the legislation is a further evidence paper updating some of the analysis and providing further analysis of the impact of some of the more technical decisions.</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/3259/memorandum/contents" target="_blank">http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/3259/memorandum/contents</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition, an impact assessment of the new Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE) was published in June 2014 setting out the evidence base on the costs, benefits and value for money.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/strategic-environmental-assessment-of-the-proposed-new-rural-development-programme-in-england" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/strategic-environmental-assessment-of-the-proposed-new-rural-development-programme-in-england</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 17/12/2014 12:16:45 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4265 label Biography information for Andy Sawford

106433

registered interest
date	04/11/2014
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 farmers in each local authority area in Wales have received in Common Agricultural Payments in each year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	213380
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>The administration of the Single Payment Scheme within countries in the UK is a devolved issue and therefore the operation of the Scheme in Wales is a matter for the Welsh Government.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 11/11/2014 17:25:24 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane