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Written question asked by James Paice (Conservative) on Wednesday, 4 March 2009, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Friday, 6 March 2009. It was answered by Huw Irranca-Davies (Labour) on Thursday, 12 March 2009 on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Agriculture: Subsidies

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much funding has been allocated under Axis 3 of the Rural Development Programme England 2007 to 2013 for (a) diversification into non-agricultural activities, (b) support for the creation and development of micro enterprises with a view to promoting entrepreneurship and developing economic fabric, (c) encouragement of tourism activities, (d) basic services for the economy and rural population and (e) conservation and upgrading of rural heritage.
Answer

Since the Rural Development Programme for England was formally approved in December 2007, the funding set out in the following table has been allocated to the respective measures (i.e. committed to projects or programmes of investment). This includes funding devolved to regional development agencies for social and economic support. The sums allocated by Natural England to access agreements, and historic and traditional buildings, under the Environmental Stewardship Scheme are included under the tourism and conservation measures, respectively.A further sum of £92,540,437 has been allocated by regional development agencies to local action groups to implement Axis 3 objectives through the Leader approach, but this is not broken down by measure.

£
(a) Diversification into non-agricultural activities 13,003,846
(b) Support for the creation and development of micro enterprises 9,277,963
(c) Encouragement of tourism activities 14,646,421
(d) Basic services for the economy and rural population 2,071,866
(e) Conservation and upgrading of rural heritage 1,268,432

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
489 c674W;489 c676W; 261823
Session
2008-09
Related items
Rural Development Programme
Thursday, 7 May 2009
Written questions
House of Commons
Subjects
Rural development programme
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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