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	registered interest
	date	12/11/2018
	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 a programme of capital grants will be continued and apply throughout the UK to assist farmers in adopting methods of agricultural production that maximise efficiency, environmental responsibility and welfare improvements.
	tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
	tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
	uin	190415
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>The Countryside Productivity scheme provides funding, including grants, for projects in England which improve productivity in the farming and forestry sectors. In October this year we committed £30 million for further rounds of the Countryside Productivity Small Grant scheme, which helps farmers buy equipment they need to boost productivity, increase yields, and become more environmentally efficient.</p><p> </p><p>The Agriculture Bill sets out the foundations for the future. It includes provisions which would allow for financial assistance to be given to improve the productivity of agricultural activities. This will allow us to make payments to enable farmers to invest in equipment, technology and infrastructure that will help them to improve their productivity. The payments will also help farmers to deliver public goods, such as environmental benefits and animal health and welfare enhancements that are significantly above the regulatory baseline.</p><p> </p><p>We are developing a policy for England. Agriculture is devolved, and so it is for the devolved administrations to determine their own policies and decide how they spend their money.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 20/11/2018 14:41:27 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

619050

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2016
	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 recent progress she has made on resolving Basic Payment Scheme claims which include common land.
	tabling member constituency	East Devon
	tabling member printed	Sir Hugo Swire
	uin	49824
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2016 answer text <p>All eligible farmers have received a payment on their 2015 BPS claim apart from exceptional cases, such as those that cannot be paid for legal reasons like probate.</p><p> </p><p>Making payments on large commons has proved challenging in the first year of BPS. This was down to multiple and often very large land parcels, many commoners claiming BPS and a complicated historical allocation of grazing rights.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 27/10/2016 16:47:00 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	1408 label Biography information for Lord Swire

619937

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2016
	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, if she will take steps to improve the level of information provided to farmers on how claim payments under the Basic Payment Scheme are broken down.
	tabling member constituency	East Devon
	tabling member printed	Sir Hugo Swire
	uin	49907
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2016 answer text <p>The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) has provided detailed guidance on how BPS 2015 payments are calculated and this is published on the GOV.UK website.</p><p> </p><p>For BPS 2016, the RPA will provide updated guidance on GOV.UK which will explain how payments are calculated including BPS entitlement values and payment rates, reductions and penalties and the Financial discipline mechanism.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 27/10/2016 13:19:56 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	1408 label Biography information for Lord Swire

619939

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2016
	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, if she will consider providing bridging payments to Rural Payment Agency claimants awaiting payment after 31 March 2017.
	tabling member constituency	East Devon
	tabling member printed	Sir Hugo Swire
	uin	49898
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2016 answer text <p>The RPA’s focus remains on paying 90% of farmers their payment by the end of December. The RPA will aim to pay those still to receive a payment as quickly as possible beyond that.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 27/10/2016 12:22:52 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	1408 label Biography information for Lord Swire

637856

	registered interest
	date	16/11/2016
	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 had not received money due from the Rural Payments Agency under the 2015 Basic Payment Scheme by the end of 16 November 2016 in (a) England, (b) Cumbria and (c) Copeland parliamentary constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Copeland
	tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
	uin	53351
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2016 answer text <p>By 16 November, in addition to claims which the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) cannot pay due to legal reasons such as probate, all but 6 claimants had received a payment, and of those 6 none are in Cumbria or the Copeland constituency. This figure is an increase of 1 compared to the previously reported figure because the agency is completing routine final checks on nil value claims.</p><p> </p><p>The RPA said it would investigate BPS 2015 claims where there is a discrepancy between the claim information and that held on the Rural Payments Service through a planned reconciliation process. This started after the BPS 2016 application window and looked at an initial stock of 13,607 claims for England. The agency continues to review new queries and has identified 1,200 claims relating to common land, of these 386 are in Cumbria and 73 are in the Copeland constituency.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 24/11/2016 17:23:48 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed

637857

	registered interest
	date	16/11/2016
	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 steps her Department is taking to reduce the level of inaccurate Common Agricultural Policy payments.
	tabling member constituency	St Helens North
	tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
	uin	53341
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2016 answer text <p>The RPA introduced new features to enable farmers and agents to apply for 2016 BPS online, as well as view their land and transfer land and entitlements to others. With over 80% of claims received online, this means the number of cases requiring manual data-entry this year was significantly reduced.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 23/11/2016 14:26:03 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

637858

	registered interest
	date	16/11/2016
	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 inaccurate Common Agricultural Policy payments were made to farmers in (a) St Helens North, (b) Merseyside and (c) the UK in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	St Helens North
	tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
	uin	53370
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2016 answer text <p>The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) said it would investigate Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) 2015 claims where there’s a discrepancy between the claim information and that held on the Rural Payments service, through a planned payment reconciliation process. This started after the BPS 2016 application window closed and looked at an initial stock of 13,600 claims for England.</p><p> </p><p>Of these claims, 14 related to farmers in St Helens and 41 in Merseyside. The RPA does not hold this information for the UK. The agency will continue to investigate new queries which customers raise and make any top-up payments due.</p><p> </p><p>No comparable data is available for the previous scheme which ran between 2005 and 2014.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 22/11/2016 15:29:10 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

637859

	registered interest
	date	16/11/2016
	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 much the UK paid to the European Commission on disallowance penalties for Common Agricultural Policy payments which did not comply with regulations in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	St Helens North
	tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
	uin	53371
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2016 answer text <p>As from financial year 2010/11 Defra has accrued £402m for disallowance following the conclusion of EU audits, broken down by financial year as shown in the table below. This relates 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="6"><p>Disallowance (*) £m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>2015/16</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><td><p>66</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>(*) Reflects the sums the European Commission have ruled cannot be reimbursed (i.e. the amounts they have “disallowed”).</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 21/11/2016 15:51:07 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

637861

	registered interest
	date	16/11/2016
	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 applicants for common agricultural policy payments from (a) St Helens North constituency, (b) Merseyside and (c) the UK were awaiting payment by the March 2016 payment deadline.
	tabling member constituency	St Helens North
	tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
	uin	53340
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2016 answer text <p>As at the end of March 2016, in addition to claims which the Rural Payments Agency cannot pay due to legal reasons such as probate, there were 13,531 English claimants still awaiting a BPS Payment. Of these 54 applicants were in Merseyside and 25 in St Helens North. The RPA does not hold the information for the UK as payments in Scotland and Wales are made by their respective governments.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 24/11/2016 14:28:25 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

638669

	registered interest
	date	18/11/2016
	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 cases are outstanding for commons payments from the Rural Payments Agency under the 2015 Basic Payment Scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
	tabling member printed	Tim Farron
	uin	53822
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2016 answer text <p>By 16 November, in addition to claims which the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) cannot pay due to legal reasons such as probate, all but 6 claimants had received a payment. This figure is an increase of 1 compared to the previously reported figure because the agency is completing routine final checks on nil value claims.</p><p> </p><p>The RPA said it would investigate BPS 2015 claims where there is a discrepancy between the claim information and that held on the Rural Payments Service through a planned reconciliation process. This started after the BPS 2016 application window and looked at an initial stock of 13,607 claims for England. The agency continues to review new queries and has identified around 1,200 claims relating to common land. The total value of top up payments due will only be available once these claims have been reviewed.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 53729 question first answered 23/11/2016 17:53:27 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron