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Single Payment Scheme

: I am grateful to my right hon. Friend, and the House is grateful for the Select Committee's excellent reports. I have not had the benefit of reading all of the 2003 report, but should like to highlight two of the conclusions from the most recent report. They highlight the failure of the computer system, which led to cost overruns, and question the whole contract. Conclusion 7 speaks for itself:"““We are deeply unimpressed by the failure of Defra and the RPA to plan properly for the process of administering payments under the Single Payment Scheme.””" That lends huge support to what my right hon. and hon. Friends have said.