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Written question asked by Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru) on Tuesday, 8 December 2020, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 10 December 2020. It was answered by Baroness Prentis of Banbury (Conservative) on Tuesday, 15 December 2020 on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.


Rural Development Programme

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the 2014-2020 Rural Development Programme underspends are in the 2021-22 financial year as used to calculate the funding for agricultural support and rural development announced on 25 November 2020 in (a) Wales, (b) Scotland, (c) Northern Ireland and (d) England.

Answer

In our 2019 manifesto we promised to maintain the current annual budget to farmers for the lifetime of this parliament. At the recently concluded Spending Review the UK Government met this commitment by providing new exchequer funding on top of the remaining EU funding in each nation to ensure that farmers receive the same total funding next year as they received in 2019 when the manifesto commitment was made.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
126937
Session
2019-21
Subjects
Rural development programme
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
View this Written question on www.parliament.uk