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Rural Payments Agency

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Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

444 c543-4 

Session

2005-06

Department

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

Single Farm Payments
Wednesday, 19 April 2006
Written statements
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Baroness Beckett | 444 c543-4 (Link to this contribution) In my written statement to the House on 16 March, I told the House that the Rural Payments Agency ha...

James Paice | 444 c543-4 (Link to this contribution) (Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will...

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Ian Davidson | 444 c550 (Link to this contribution) Can the Secretary of State tell the House what steps are being taken to reduce the welfare dependenc...

Baroness Beckett | 444 c546-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman drew on the experience of Scotland and Wales, and he is right to say that they ha...

Michael Jack | 444 c548 (Link to this contribution) In the light of the fact that the Select Committee, which I have the honour of chairing, has twice w...

Baroness Beckett | 444 c551 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right to observe that Members were saying that the scheme was going badly wron...

Lord Cormack | 444 c551 (Link to this contribution) When the south Staffordshire farmers who were reassured by Lord Bach’s Oxford speech talk to me of C...

Baroness Beckett | 444 c552-3 (Link to this contribution) It was graceful of the Under-Secretary, my hon. Friend the Member for South Dorset (Jim Knight) to s...

Lord Maples | 444 c551 (Link to this contribution) But the Secretary of State designed the scheme herself; she did not have to introduce it. She announ...

James Paice | 444 c544-6 (Link to this contribution) I remind the House of my entry in the Register of Members’ Interests, and I thank the Secretary of S...

Peter Bone | 444 c554 (Link to this contribution) What would the Secretary of State say to Mr. Lonsdale, an elderly farmer in my constituency, who ran...

Baroness Beckett | 444 c554 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising the issue that a wider community depends on farming....

Paddy Tipping | 444 c548 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has made it clear that she regards the situation as unsatisfactory. Will she ...

John Greenway | 444 c554 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for what the right hon. Lady said in answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Kettering...

Graham Stuart | 444 c554 (Link to this contribution) Two of my farmer constituents, Messrs Caley and Leake, were refused any single farm payments because...

Julian Brazier | 444 c553 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State put back the deadline for the 2006 applications, or give a firm assuranc...

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering | 444 c552-3 (Link to this contribution) I refer to my entry in the Register of Members’ Interests. The Secretary of State will wish to apolo...

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 444 c553 (Link to this contribution) I have repeatedly asked the Secretary of State questions about this issue at Environment, Food and R...

Baroness Beckett | 444 c553 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right: Members did repeatedly ask such questions, and as has always been the p...

Baroness Beckett | 444 c553 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an interesting and valid point and I undertake to look into it.

Baroness Beckett | 444 c553-4 (Link to this contribution) As I have repeatedly explained to the House, I am not in the business of giving Members guarantees t...

Baroness Beckett | 444 c549-50 (Link to this contribution) I assure the House, and the right hon. and learned Gentleman, that that is being carefully considere...

Mark Pritchard | 444 c550-1 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State agree to meet a delegation of farmers from Shropshire? Is she aware of t...

Gavin Strang | 444 c549 (Link to this contribution) As has been said, Scottish farmers have already received their single farm payments. May I assure my...

Baroness Beckett | 444 c549 (Link to this contribution) I do not rule that out; it will, of course, partly be a matter for the House.

Baroness Beckett | 444 c549 (Link to this contribution) I always listen with great care to the right hon. Gentleman’s observations, and frequently find grea...

Baroness Beckett | 444 c551-2 (Link to this contribution) If that was five years ago, it was long before the negotiations on CAP reform, for a start. Once the...

Baroness Beckett | 444 c551 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman can tell them that a bold move was made in the 1980s: the setting up of such thin...

Baroness Beckett | 444 c550 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has long been a critic of the system of farm support that has existed in this country...

Helen Goodman | 444 c549 (Link to this contribution) Obviously, the situation is most regrettable, and I am grateful to the Secretary of State for the me...

Baroness Beckett | 444 c548 (Link to this contribution) I can certainly give the right hon. Gentleman that assurance. He knows that I have sought to keep hi...

Chris Huhne | 444 c546-8 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State talks about using up margins of contingency, but surely there is no way of de...

Baroness Beckett | 444 c549 (Link to this contribution) I cannot give that undertaking—although, as I said, we are keeping the whole position under review, ...

Baroness Beckett | 444 c550 (Link to this contribution) Yes.

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 444 c549-50 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Lady agree that it might take a long time to recover from this managerial collap...

Viscount Hailsham | 444 c550 (Link to this contribution) I think that the right hon. Lady will know that the entitlement statements being sent out do not sho...

Philip Hollobone | 444 c553-4 (Link to this contribution) Farmers in my Kettering constituency are as concerned about this disgraceful situation as any other ...

Baroness Beckett | 444 c554 (Link to this contribution) I have already made it plain that Ministers are extremely concerned and dismayed about the position....

Baroness Beckett | 444 c544-6 (Link to this contribution) There are rather a large number of questions there, Mr. Deputy Speaker, but I will do my best to ans...

Baroness Beckett | 444 c550-1 (Link to this contribution) As I have said, regular meetings are scheduled with stakeholder representatives of the farming commu...

David Curry | 444 c549 (Link to this contribution) Is the Secretary of State aware that under the old integrated administration and control scheme intr...

Baroness Beckett | 444 c554 (Link to this contribution) As I said a little while ago, we have been in touch with banks and with those who deal with the fina...

Keith Simpson | 444 c551-2 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has attempted to slough off any ministerial responsibility, but if she looks ...

Baroness Beckett | 444 c548 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is entirely right to say that the key issue now is to give farmers as much certainty ...

Subjects

Administration Agriculture EU law Farmers Payments Subsidies Rural Payments Agency Common agricultural policy

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