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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