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registered interest false more like this
date less than 2024-02-21more like thismore than 2024-02-21
answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs more like this
answering dept id 13 more like this
answering dept short name Environment, Food and Rural Affairs more like this
answering dept sort name Environment, Food and Rural Affairs more like this
hansard heading Agriculture and horticulture: Subsidies more like this
house id 2 remove filter
legislature
25277
pref label House of Lords more like this
question text To ask His Majesty's Government what is the number of full time equivalent personnel employed by DEFRA to administer farming and horticultural grants and subsidies in England on the latest date for which figures are available. more like this
tabling member printed
Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts more like this
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answer
is ministerial correction false more like this
date of answer less than 2024-03-12more like thismore than 2024-03-12
answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally and to obtain it would incur disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p><p>Defra’s Grants Hub data does not hold a ‘Farming &amp; Horticulture’ flag so it would not be possible to quickly pull together a list of schemes in scope of this question.</p><p> </p><p>Manually reviewing the schemes and deciding if they fit or not, without a standard definition of what counts as ‘Farming &amp; Horticulture’, would require a degree of personal judgement and therefore yield some inaccuracy. It would then be necessary to validate the list with teams to ensure they are ‘Farming &amp; Horticulture’ grants.</p><p> </p><p>From experience of similar requests, this would push the cost to disproportionate (ie greater than the HMT-set limit of £850 for a PQ answer).</p> more like this
answering member printed Lord Douglas-Miller more like this
question first answered
less than 2024-03-12T14:24:36.833Zmore like thismore than 2024-03-12T14:24:36.833Z
answering member
5006
label Biography information for Lord Douglas-Miller more like this
tabling member
1651
label Biography information for Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts more like this