Ministerial statement on Thursday, 22 June 2006, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Rooker.

Rural Payments Agency

Lords statement on the Rural Payments Agency.

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 683 c900-10
Session: 2005-06
Department: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Chamber / Committee: House of Lords chamber
Related items: Rural Payments Agency
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Proceeding contributions: Lord Rooker | 683 c909 (Link to this contribution) No, my Lords, I could only make wild guesses at the moment because the legal payment window was from...; Earl Ferrers | 683 c909 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all produced schemes that worked, when ours did not. ...; Earl of Selborne | 683 c909 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, what has been the cost of this long, sad saga? Resolving the issue has clearly caused a ho...; Lord Rooker | 683 c910 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, that is a question about the past; we are a new team of Ministers. The Select Committee is...; Earl Ferrers | 683 c908 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall ask the Minister some elementary questions. I first declare an interest in that I ...; Lord Rooker | 683 c908-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful for the noble Earl’s questions. On his first question, the system that was a...; Lord Willoughby de Broke | 683 c909 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord’s predecessor, the noble Lord, Lord Bach, repeatedly told us that staff in ...; Lord Rooker | 683 c909 (Link to this contribution) Yes, my Lords. The RPA has 900 staff, of whom probably only a handful have brought odium upon the ot...; Lord Williamson of Horton | 683 c906-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I very much welcome the fact that, at last, the Minister has a grip on what is a very bad ...; Lord Rooker | 683 c907 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, first, it is not £1,000; it is €1,000, so we are talking about approximately £600. We have...; House of Lords chamber | 683 c907 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have a minuscule interest to declare in respect of 30 acres of to-let grassland. I have ...; Lord Rooker | 683 c907-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I certainly hope that the latter part of the question asked by the noble Lord, Lord Biffen...; Lord Livsey of Talgarth | 683 c903-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate the Minister on getting things moving but, as I am sure he knows, his inher...; Lord Rooker | 683 c904-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful for the response from the noble Lords, Lord Dixon-Smith and Lord Livsey. I m...; Lord Dixon-Smith | 683 c902-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I declare an interest as an eligible farmer who, the noble Lord will be interested and ple...; Lord Rooker | 683 c900-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, with the leave of the House I shall repeat a statement on the Rural Payments Agency made i...
Subjects: Applications Agriculture Administrative delays Interest charges Payments Subsidies Rural Payments Agency Common agricultural policy Hill livestock allowances Sugar beet Common sugar regime
Contains statistics: Yes
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Rural Payments Agency

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