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Environmental Payments

Volume 328: debated on Monday 22 March 1999

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To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what plans he has to remove the financial limit on payments under the environmentally sensitive area and countryside premium schemes. [76363]

[holding answer 18 March 1999]: We have no plans to remove the financial limits which are necessary to ensure an equitable spread of available resources.From 1 July 1999, this will be a matter for the Scottish Parliament.