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Single Payment Scheme

With the benefit of hindsight, everyone would say that the hybrid payments were a dreadful mistake, even the Select Committee. However, that does not excuse the fact that historic payments are indefensible in this day and age, because the common agricultural policy needs to be reformed. Does the hon. Lady know who the 50 per cent. additional claimants are? I have been trying to ascertain why the numbers are so drastically wrong and why that was not built into the calculation.