To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what financial resources are presently devoted to each environmentally sensitive area in England and Wales; and what is the annual expenditure on the scheme.

Total payments to farmers throughout the United Kingdom under the environmentally sensitive areas schemes (ESAs) in the financial year 1989–90 is forecast to be £12·6 million. The total costs of agreements signed by 31 December 1989 in individual ESAs in England and Wales are:

	£
England
Broads	1,741,000
Pennine Dales	946,000
Somerset Levels and Moors	814,000
South Downs	578,000
West Penwith	340,000
Breckland	457,000
North Peak	687,000
Shropshire Borders	555,000
Suffolk River Valleys	871,000
Test Valey	26,000
Wales
Cambrian Mountains	646,000
Lleyn Peninsula	249,000

Total financial resources devoted to the schemes are a combination of payments to farmers and administration costs. The latter, which include a substantial element attributable to ADAS advice, cannot be calculated separately for each ESA without disproportionate effort.

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many of his Department's and Agricultural Development Advisory Service staff are allocated to each environmentally sensitive area in England and Wales; and what is the total staff allocation for the scheme nationally.

None of our staff is wholly allocated to a specific environmentally sensitive area. Details of the total manpower expected to be deployed (in man years) in 1989–90 is shown in the table:

MAFF Unit	ESAs Designated in Region	Man years Admin	Man years ADAS
Eastern Region	The Broads Suffolk River Valleys Breckland	5·9	12·5
Midland and Western Region	North Peak1 Shropshire Borders	3·2	10·3
Northern Region	North Peak1 Pennine Dales	3·2	10·9