To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate he has made of the cost per head of population in the last year of (a) the Common Agricultural Policy and (b) other national and European measures to support agriculture; and what the cost was (i) five, (ii) 10 and (iii) 20 years ago. (116502)

Agricultural policy in the EU generates transfers to producers from both consumers and taxpayers. An estimate of the cost of the Common Agricultural Policy can be obtained by combining the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) consumer support estimates for the EU with data on agricultural expenditure from the EU budget.

The OECD also compiles estimates of national expenditures on agricultural policies within the EU.

The following table sets out estimates of these costs per head of population, as requested: