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421041

registered interest
date	13/10/2015
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, what progress has been made on (a) processing farmers' 2015 Basic Payment Scheme applications and (b) tackling the challenges of getting information supplied by farmers in paper form back onto an online validation process; and what resources have been committed to carry out this work to date.
tabling member constituency	Stratford-on-Avon
tabling member printed	Nadhim Zahawi
uin	11734
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2015 answer text <p>Good progress is being made on processing Basic Payment Scheme 2015 applications including capturing changes that were made on the paper forms along with any new requirements of the scheme onto the Rural Payments IT system. We currently have access to around 800 people to perform this processing work.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 16/10/2015 10:02:47 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi

421042

registered interest
date	13/10/2015
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, what effect the switch to a paper-based application system for the Basic Payment Scheme has had on (a) claim validation and the verification of claims and (b) the delivery of timely payments from 1 December.
tabling member constituency	Stratford-on-Avon
tabling member printed	Nadhim Zahawi
uin	11735
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2015 answer text <p>The move to the paper based application approach for the Basic Payment Scheme 2015 has not had an impact on the validation and verification of claims and the Rural Payments Agency remain on track to make the majority of payments in December.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 16/10/2015 09:57:07 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi

421044

registered interest
date	13/10/2015
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, if she will make it her policy to introduce interim payments in cases in which there are delays in making payments under the Basic Payments Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	11598
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2015 answer text <p>The Rural Payments Agency remains on track to meet their public payment commitments. Full payments on the majority of Basic Payment Scheme 2015 claims will be made from December, within the payment window that runs between December and June. As such interim payments are not being considered.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 16/10/2015 09:59:46 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

420681

registered interest
date	12/10/2015
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 CAP payment applications were submitted within the deadline in the latest period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
tabling member printed	Calum Kerr
uin	11363
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2015 answer text <p>CAP payments are the responsibility of each Devolved Administration. In England there were 87,102 Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) Applications submitted by the 15 June 2015 deadline. In addition there were 1,103 Applications submitted between the 15 June and 10 July (penalty period), and 158 submitted after the 10 July deadline.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 16/10/2015 12:58:21 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4379 label Biography information for Calum Kerr

420683

registered interest
date	12/10/2015
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, what estimate she has made of the cost to date of the Government's CAP IT system.
tabling member constituency	Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
tabling member printed	Calum Kerr
uin	11361
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2015 answer text <p>The total programme costs (audited outturn) for 2013-14 and 2014-15 is £98.4 million.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 15/10/2015 11:41:41 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4379 label Biography information for Calum Kerr

420684

registered interest
date	12/10/2015
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, what discussions she has had with the European Commission on the relaxation of rules on farm checks required for the Basic Payment Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
tabling member printed	Calum Kerr
uin	11358
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2015 answer text <p>Simplification of the farm controls regime under the Basic Payment Scheme is a top priority for the Department. The Secretary of State and I have had regular discussions and exchanges with Commissioner Hogan on how this could be applied practically. The Secretary of State raised this with the Commission most recently on 7 September 2015 at the Extraordinary Agriculture and Fisheries Council. Officials also continue to press the Commission at working-group level.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 15/10/2015 11:36:20 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4379 label Biography information for Calum Kerr

420685

registered interest
date	12/10/2015
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, what disallowance penalties her Department has incurred in relation to CAP payments in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
tabling member printed	Calum Kerr
uin	11357
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2015 answer text <p>The table below details the disallowance incurred by Defra on a financial year basis and reflects the dates at which disallowance was accrued by the Department following the conclusion of EU audits. The disallowed figures relate to a number of different Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Schemes over a number of historical scheme years. Audits and Scheme years do not necessarily coincide.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p>Disallowance (*) £m</p></td></tr><tr><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>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 (EC) have ruled cannot be reimbursed (i.e. the amounts they have “disallowed”) and which are therefore a cost to the Exchequer.</p><p>The Government challenges proposed disallowance through mediation in the EU and since 2010 reduced the amount of disallowance levied by €285m.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 16/10/2015 12:50:31 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4379 label Biography information for Calum Kerr

420686

registered interest
date	12/10/2015
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 farmers and other eligible businesses have (a) registered for and (b) completed the CAP payment application.
tabling member constituency	Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
tabling member printed	Calum Kerr
uin	11359
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2015 answer text <p>CAP payments are the responsibility of each Devolved Administration. In England 92,186 businesses and agents have registered to use the Rural Payment System and 88,363 businesses have submitted a Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) Application for 2015.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 20/10/2015 12:05:08 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4379 label Biography information for Calum Kerr

420687

registered interest
date	12/10/2015
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, whether her Department plans to make CAP payments before the end of December 2015.
tabling member constituency	Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
tabling member printed	Calum Kerr
uin	11360
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2015 answer text <p>The Rural Payments Agency will be making full payments to eligible farmers as early as possible in the payment window, which runs from 1st December 2015 to 28th June 2016. We expect to make the majority of payments in December and the vast majority by the end of January.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 16/10/2015 12:52:49 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4379 label Biography information for Calum Kerr

417629

registered interest
date	08/09/2015
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, what steps she has taken to reduce the financial penalties imposed by the European Commission on her Department relating to the Common Agricultural Policy; and what estimate she has made of the likely level of such penalties in 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	9378
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p>Complexity in CAP rules and the interpretation that EU auditors place on regulations is the root cause of many disallowance corrections. Since 2010, steps taken by Defra have allowed the disallowance penalties incurred in England to be steadily managed at around £50m per year. Throughout this period the Government has challenged claims for disallowance through mediation in the EU and since 2010 reduced the amount of disallowance levied by €285m.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department’s Annual Report and Accounts provides provisions of £64.5m for future disallowance related to historical audits. While future disallowance penalties are difficult to predict, the Government is concerned that the new Horizontal Regulation amends the way that penalty rates are calculated, introducing a ratchet effect, which could greatly increase proposed disallowance penalty corrections, even if the same standards of implementation are maintained. The UK Government believes that a proportionate penalty scheme in the Horizontal Regulation is a priority for CAP simplification and the mid-term review of CAP regulations.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 16/09/2015 15:54:50 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies