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Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

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Paddy Tipping: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much was paid out under (a) the Sheep Annual Premium and (b) the Sheep National Envelope in each county in England in 2003-04; and if she will make a statement. [194415] Alun Michael: The amounts paid out under (a) the Sheep Annual Premium and (b) the Sheep National Envelope in each county in England submitted in 2003 are set out in the following table. Payments were made during the payment window of 16 October 2003 to 31 March 2004. Over 97 per cent. of applicants received their Premium and Sheep National Envelope payments within the first two weeks of the opening of the payment window. The figures for claims submitted in 2004 are not yet available, as the payment window has not yet closed. However over 98 per cent. of qualifying applicants received their premium during the first few days of the payment window opening. £ _________________________________________________________________________________________________. County name 2003 premium payments 2003 SNE payments Bedfordshire 244491.00 3988.89 Berkshire 327640.11 5345.48 Buckinghamshire 1077098.09 17572.96 Cleveland 220235.62 3593.16 Cambridgeshire 326388.36 5325.06 Cheshire 1069131.53 17442.97 Cornwall 3183824.27 51945.37 Cumbria 13832914.03 225685.47 Derbyshire 2543377.02 41495.45 Devon 9594551.82 156569.55 Dorset 1227869.11 20032.81 Durham 3366262.07 54920.92 Essex 324461.20 5293.62 Gloucestershire 1953961.60 31879.08 Hampshire 707545.96 11543.69 Isle of Wight 179547.01 2929.33 Hereford and Worcester 5632496.70 91894.75 Hertfordshire 160775.98 2623.07 Kent 2335685.40 38106.94 Lancashire 4056209.13 66177.46 Leicestershire 1844621.58 30095.19 Lincolnshire 957432.07 15620.60 Merseyside 28802.75 469.92 Greater London 6014.06 98.12 Greater London 3357.63 54.78 Norfolk 648052.10 10573.02 Northamptonshire 1769303.46 28866.39 Tyne and Wear 64509.54 1052.48 Northumberland 8288442.42 135226.80 Nottinghamshire 447134.06 7295.03 Oxfordshire 999387.54 16305.13 Avon 446286.76 7281.21 Shropshire 4876551.87 79561.45 Somerset 3074285.31 50164.64 Staffordshire 1418024.61 23135.21 Suffolk 445803.31 7273.32 Scilly Isles 0 0 Surrey 286833.90 4679.72 East Sussex 1556025.79 25386.70 West Sussex 511447.48 8344.31 Warwickshire 1726662.97 28170.68 Greater Manchester 395244.99 6448.47 Wiltshire 1042745.72 17012.52 West Midlands 111949.69 1826.47 South Yorkshire 445145.54 7262.60 North Yorkshire 10689173.06 174394.95 West Yorkshire 1187397.94 19372.50 North Yorkshire 156715.45 2556.83 Humberside 605564.35 9879.85 Total 96,397,381.96 1,572,774.92 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

194415; 426 c822-3W;426 c826-7W

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Payments Sheep premiums

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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