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438933

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date	16/12/2015
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, what assessment her Department has made of levels of implementation of the greening requirements of the Basic Payment Scheme and its effectiveness in reducing carbon emissions and delivering improvements for pollinators and other wildlife in the farmed landscape.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	20504
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2016 answer text <p>We are in the final stages of processing 2015 BPS claims and making payments so it is too early to make an assessment of Greening implementation. However, an ex-ante assessment of the economic and environmental impacts of Greening in England, based on Defra’s Farm Business Survey, was published in the evidence annex to the Explanatory Memorandum which accompanied the Statutory Instrument 2014 No. 3259.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 05/01/2016 12:29:35 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

438934

registered interest
date	16/12/2015
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, what the Government's priorities are for the next round of negotiations on CAP.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	20505
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2016 answer text <p><br></p><p>The European Commission’s current focus is on simplification of the CAP. UK Ministers are pressing the Commission and other Member States to be more ambitious in this exercise in order to reduce burdens and costs to farmers and administrators.</p><br /><p>Our priorities for the next round of CAP reform were set out in our manifesto. Our aim is to deliver a new agricultural policy which is simpler, which contributes to productivity and growth in the farming industry and which also delivers for the environment and improves animal welfare.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 05/01/2016 12:38:16 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

438641

registered interest
date	15/12/2015
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, what steps she plans to take to make the certification process for the Basic Payment Scheme more efficient for farmers; and if she will include further accountability bodies who are able to certify active farmer status to improve efficiency of that scheme.
tabling member constituency	Beverley and Holderness
tabling member printed	Graham Stuart
uin	20276
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>We are considering what changes are required to the administration of the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) next year, taking into account the feedback we have received from farmers and experience from the first year of implementation.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 21/12/2015 17:30:07 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart

438091

registered interest
date	14/12/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Agriculture: Subsidies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he expects applicants for payments under CAP to be able to register their identity using GOV.UK Verify as planned under the new CAP regime.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	19838
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2015 answer text <p>Applicants can already register and sign in online for Rural Payments with <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> Verify.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 17/12/2015 16:38:45 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

435750

registered interest
date	07/12/2015
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Gardiner of Kimble on 17 November (HL3653), whether they will require all EU advertising notices to include information about the ratio of UK contributions to the EU budget and sums returned by way of grants.
tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
uin	HL4325
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>The government has no plans to require all EU advertising notices for Structural and Investment Funds to include information about the ratio of UK contributions to the EU budget and sums returned by way of grants. However we will seek to remove the requirement to display notices in future reforms of the CAP.</p><br /> <br /> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 21/12/2015 14:37:29 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon