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Set-Aside Scheme

Volume 168: debated on Thursday 8 March 1990

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81.

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how much land has been included in the set-aside scheme; and what is the cost to the most recent practicable date.

A total of 110,000 hectares of land has so far been set aside in the United Kingdom. The cost of payments in the current financial year is about £11 million.