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Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

Answer

Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what percentage of agricultural subsidy went to (a) dairy, (b) beef, (c) sheep, (d) mixed and (e) arable farming in (i) the North West, (ii) Lancashire and (iii) England in the last year for which figures are available. [180424] Alun Michael: The Rural Payments Agency's (RPA) payment systems do not separately record the type of agricultural concern. The information requested could only be provided at disproportionate cost. However, the RPA is able to provide the following information relating to the number and value of claims paid to farmers in Lancashire, the North West and England. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Area Number of claims Value (£) Lancashire 2,639 23,156,928.16 North West 10,349 119,273,894.47 England 89,264 1,344,500,373.94 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. The total value of claims paid under the various bovine, sheep and arable schemes for England is set out in the following table. £ _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Scheme Value Arable Area Payments 869,198,056.32 Arable Agrimonetary Aid 175,466.06 Beef Agrimonetary Aid 503,250.31 Beef National Envelope 14,621,949.50 Beef Special Premium 116,372,542.98 Extensification 55,266,107.70 Hill Farming Allowance 39,159,843.27 Milk 263,043.48 Sheep Annual Premium 104,874,363.13 Suckler Cow Premium 77,209,138.58 Sheep Agrimonetary Aid 7,899.06 Slaughter Premium 66,848,713.55 Total 1,344,500,373.94 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. All of the above figures relate to the European Agriculture Guidance and Guarantee Fund 2003 accounting year which ran from 16 October 2002 to 15 October 2003.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

423 c292-3W; 180424

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Agriculture Dairy farming Lancashire Sheep Subsidies Beef North West Arable farming Beef premiums Sheep premiums

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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