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Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will break down by programme the budget set by her Department for public expenditure on land management and rural development, including the Entry Level Scheme, other England rural development programme schemes and other schemes for financial...

Asked by

Andrew George (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

2 November 2004

For answer on

11 November 2004

Answered on

11 November 2004

Andrew George: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will break down by programme the budget set by her Department for public expenditure on land management and rural development, including the Entry Level Scheme, other England rural development programme schemes and other schemes for financial years (a) 2004-05 and (b) 2005-06. [196652] Alun Michael: The budget profile and breakdown for the England Rural Development Programme (ERDP) in 2004-05 are shown in the following table. This is the full resource-based budget and relates specifically to the anticipated value of payments to be made to beneficiaries. The agri-environment schemes are the Countryside Stewardship Scheme (CSS), the Environmentally Sensitive Areas scheme (ESA) and the Organic Farming Scheme (OFS). The Entry Level Stewardship budget of £2.0 million shown below relates to the ongoing pilot agreements only. Defra has not yet concluded its formal business planning process for the 2005-06 financial year. Figures will be provided as soon as that process is complete. Subject to European Commission approval, a new agri-environment scheme called Environmental Stewardship (ES) will be launched in England in 2005 to replace the three existing schemes (CSS, ESA, OFS). Environmental Stewardship will consist of three separate elements: Entry Level Stewardship (ELS), Organic Entry Level Stewardship (OELS) and Higher Level Stewardship (HLS). Agri-environment schemes are budgeted a year in arrears, which means that the expenditure reflects agreements signed in the previous year. Current planning assumptions about the expected rate of uptake to the Entry Level element of Environmental Stewardship suggest that by 2006-07 expenditure will be in the region of £132 million and will rise further thereafter. In addition to the England Rural Development Programme budgets shown, Rural Development funding of £21.2 million in 2004-05 and £19.3 million in 2005-06 is also available under the Objective 1 Programme. This funding stream is directed to beneficiaries in the three, geographically defined Objective 1 areas in England: Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, Merseyside and South Yorkshire. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. ERDP 2004-05 Total (£ million) Agri-environment schemes (ESA, CSS, OFS) 155.8 Entry Level Stewardship Pilot 2.0 Hill Farm Allowance 27.2 Rural Enterprise Scheme 30.0 Vocational Training Scheme 4.0 Processing and Marketing Grant 8.0 Energy Crops Scheme 1.4 Farm Woodland Premium Scheme 11.8 Woodland Grant Scheme 22.0 Total ERDP 262.2 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Date

11 November 2004

Reference

196652; 426 c820-1W;426 c824-5W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many voluntary shops are operating, broken down by local authority area; and what financial or other help the Department has provided in each case. - Inc tables and figures.

Asked by

David Drew (Labour; Co-operative Party)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

14 October 2004

For answer on

25 October 2004

Answered on

25 October 2004

Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many voluntary shops are operating, broken down by local authority area; and what financial or other help the Department has provided in each case. [192339] Alun Michael: There is no accepted definition of what constitutes a `voluntary' shop. Furthermore, there is no one definitive source of information on how many voluntary shops are operating nationally, or therefore broken down by local authority area. The Plunkett Foundation estimates that there are 200 `community owned' rural village shops nationally. This includes 150 that have received support from the Village Retail Services Association over the past 10 years. The Vital Villages programme, which the Countryside Agency ran between April 2001 and April 2004, contained a Community Services Grant. During the programme, £314,020 was granted to a total of 19 projects which involved retail services or facilities and which were owned by non-for-profit organisations, charitable trusts or voluntary groups. This information is broken down in Annex A. The Community Services Grant also funded retail applicants to benefit from retail consultants, who provided business support and advice for these projects. The Rural Enterprise Scheme, which forms part of the England Rural Development Programme, is wide- ranging in its support for projects and offers funding towards the set up costs of community shops. Since the scheme came into force in October 2000 it has assisted eight community shops, amounting to £419,170 grant (a detailed breakdown is at Annex B). Annex A: Retail projects funded by Community Services Grant 2001-04 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Region/Applicant Project name Parish District Amount (£) East Midlands Voluntary group Witham St. Hugh's Witham St. Hugh's North Kesteven 23,688 Community Hall project Charitable trust Palterton Welfare Shop Scarcliff Bolsover 1,971 East of England Voluntary group Itteringham Community Itteringham North Norfolk 19,754 Shop Not for profit organisation Monks Eleigh Community Monks Eleigh Babergh 23,751 Shop Development Not for profit organisation Langham and Boxted Boxted Colchester 17,189 community shop Charitable trust Pakenham New shop and Pakenham St. Edmundsbury 25,000 Post Office in Village hall North East Charitable trust Kielder Petrol station Kielder Tynedale 25,000 South East Voluntary group St. Mary Bourne village St. Mary Bourne Basingstoke and Deane 24,772 shop Not for profit organisation Winchelsea Little shop Icklesham Rother 18,443 Association Not for profit organisation Buriton Village shop and Buriton East Hampshire 14,620 post office Not for profit organisation The Old village Slinford Horsham 25,000 store--Slinford Not for profit organisation Ascott-under-Wychwood Ascott-under- Wychwood West Oxfordshire 10,000 village shop Charitable trust Tackley Community shop Tackley West Oxfordshire 25,000 South West Voluntary group Blisland Amenity centre Blisland North Cornwall 25,000 shop Voluntary group Exbourne and Jacobstowe Exbourne West Devon 10,844 community enterprise Not for profit organisation Coaley Shop and post Coaley Stroud 10,126 office association West Midlands Voluntary group Hinstock Village stores Hinstock North Shropshire 3,862 and post office Voluntary group Bretforton post office Bretforton Wychavon 10,000 and stores Total number of projects: 19 314,020 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Annex B: A detailed breakdown of how the Rural Enterprise Scheme has assisted eight community shops _________________________________________________________________________________________________. What it is Where How much RES funding (£) Village Shop and Post Office Melmsby and Fellside, Penrith 22,248 Ditto Longtown 61,763 Village Post Office Milnthorpe 31,350 Village Store/Cafe/Post Office Brockwier and Hewelsfield, Chepstow 230,384 Village shop adjoining Community Hall Newsham, Richmond 37,441 Post Office and village Community Shop Midgely, Halifax 20,587 Village Store Whittlesford 10,216 Post Office East Hendred 5,176 Total 419,165 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Note: As at 19 October 2004

Date

25 October 2004

Reference

425 c972-4W;425 c970-2W; 192339

House

House of Commons

Written Statement on the amendment to the regional boundaries in England for the single payment scheme

Written Statement on the amendment to the regional boundaries in England for the single payment scheme.

Member

Baroness Beckett (Labour)

Department

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written statements

Date

22 April 2004

Reference

420 c26-8WS

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

Answered by

Ben Bradshaw (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Oral answers to questions

Date

22 April 2004

Reference

420 c425-6

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

Answered by

Ben Bradshaw (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Oral answers to questions

Date

22 April 2004

Reference

420 c425-6

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

1st supplementary on moorland farmers and upland communities and the next round of rural development programming.

Asked by

Matthew Green (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Oral questions - 1st Supplementary

Status

Answered

Date

22 April 2004

Reference

420 c425-6

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had on her proposals for single farm payments in respect of farmers in severely disadvantaged areas.

Asked by

Matthew Green (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Oral questions - Lead

Status

Answered

Date

22 April 2004

Reference

420 c425-6; 167007

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding was given by (a) the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs's Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund, (b) the Rural Enterprise Scheme and (c) landfill tax to village halls in each of their years of operation....

Asked by

Andrew Murrison (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

3 March 2004

For answer on

18 March 2004

Answered on

18 March 2004

Dr. Murrison: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much funding was given by (a) the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs' Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund, (b) the Rural Enterprise Scheme and (c) landfill tax to village halls in each of their years of operation. [159677] Alun Michael: Only very partial information is available. I list such information as we have: (a) Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund The Fund was introduced by the Finance Act 2001 and came into force on 1 April 2002. The levy was set at £1.60 per tonne of aggregates produced. The fund was launched in 2002 and will continue for at least a further three years. The Fund consists of £20 million for England for 2004-05 and is distributed by a number of organisations including the Countryside Agency, English Heritage, English Nature, and Leicestershire, Derbyshire and Somerset county councils. Information is not collected in a form that permits the total amount of funding for village halls from this source to be established, but, up until last May, at least £70,776 has been distributed to village hall projects. (b) Rural Enterprise Scheme Funds are available under the Rural Enterprise Scheme (part of the England Rural Development Programme, or "Pillar 2" of the Common Agricultural Policy) to help `renovation and development of villages' and `basic services for the rural economy and population'. The scheme is selective and is delivered by Defra's Rural Development Service in line with regional budgets and priorities agreed with local partners. Support is provided to village hall and other community projects but disaggregated figures relating solely to village hall projects are not available. Total funding for the relevant two measures is as follows: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. £000 2001-02 126 2002-03 1,146 2003-04 13,053 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Forecast. (c) Landfill Tax Credit Scheme Under the Landfill Tax Credit scheme landfill operators can reduce their tax liability by funding environmental or community projects. The scheme is not available to all village halls (the scheme's rules mean that projects have to be within 10 miles of a landfill tax operator's site). Grants are issued through registered environmental bodies and each will have its own priorities. Action for Communities in Rural England estimate that perhaps £1 million has been provided for village hall projects. The scheme was reformed from 1 April 2003. Approximately one third of funding (around £47 million) is to be made available through a reformed tax credit scheme for spending on local environment projects. Village halls, where they meet the criteria, will still be able to apply for funding. Government have no involvement in how the funding is spent. As yet, it is not possible to say what proportion will go to support village halls.

Date

18 March 2004

Reference

419 c425-6W;419 c427-8W; 159677

House

House of Commons

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