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Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

Answer

Vernon Coaker: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will make a statement on the abolition of the Intervention Board for Agricultural Produce and the progress towards agency status of the Rural Payments Agency; and if she will publish its framework document, corporate plan and business plan. [16242] Mr. Morley: The Rural Payments Agency was launched as an executive agency of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on 16 october 2001. It received accreditation as an EU paying agency on the same date. The chief executive is Mr. Johnston McNeill. Since that date and until 15 November, when the Intervention Board for Agricultural Produce (Abolition) Regulations 2001 came into force, the agency has been operating as a joint enterprise between the Intervention Board for Agricultural Produce and the Department under a single management structure headed by the chief executive. The House has already been informed of the agency's performance targets on 17 October 2001, Official Report, column 1247W. I am arranging for copies of the framework document, the corporate plan and the business plan for 2001-02 to be placed in the Library of the House.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

374 c971W; 16242

Session

2001-02

Subjects

Agriculture Executive agencies Payments Rural Payments Agency Intervention Board Agricultural products

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