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Business question from Ian Liddell-Grainger (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 2 July 2009. It occurred during Business statement on Business of the House.


Business of the House

I rise to request a debate in this House on behalf of the farmers of Exmoor on the digital mapping system that the Rural Payments Agency uses to allocate money to farmers. The agency has got it wrong for the third year running. This is now becoming beyond a joke. Why can we not get this mapping correct? We can read papers from space, so why can we not get field outlines right? Farmers are getting sick to the back teeth of this. Please may we have a debate on it? It is a disaster across the United Kingdom, but especially in places such as Exmoor where fields are not openly defined.


Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
495 c487-8 
Session
2008-09
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Subjects
Agriculture Software ICT Farmers Maps Rural Payments Agency
Link
View this Proceeding contribution on www.publications.parliament.uk