To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will publish her proposed expenditure for each of the next three years under the English rural development programme, broken down by scheme. [103146]

The proposed expenditure on schemes under the England rural development programme is:

£million
Scheme	2003–04	2004–05	2005–06
Countryside Stewardship Scheme	81	96	111
Environmentally Sensitive Area Scheme	48	48	48
Organic Farming Scheme	22	23	23
Farm Woodland Premium Scheme	11	12	13
Woodland Grant Scheme	21	22	22
Hill Farming Allowance	35	27	27
Rural Enterprise Scheme	24	36	36
Processing and Marketing Grant	8	8	8
Vocational Training Scheme	4	4	4
Energy Crops Scheme	5	5	5

The table does not include possible new schemes that would require modification of the ERDP and are subject to Commission approval. For example, we recently launched a pilot entry level agri-environment scheme and we have said that if this pilot is successful we intend to introduce the full scheme in England in 2005. Additional funding would have to be made available in 2005–06 to operate the scheme.based schemes is expended on commitments entered into before the ERDP began in 2000.In financial year 2000–01, 83 per cent. of the total budget available for the ERDP land-based schemes was spent, and in financial year 2001–02, 89 per cent. of the total budget available for the ERDP land-based schemes was spent.