Agriculture: Income

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much and what proportion of total income from farming resulted from (a) single farm payments, (b) agri-environment schemes, (c) diversified activity and (d) receipts from food production in each of the last three years. (186341)

The answer is given in the table shown as follows. ‘Receipts from food production’ is not available; the value of crop and livestock production has been included.

*200520062007*
	£ million	Percentage of TIFF	£ million	Percentage of TIFF	£ million	Percentage of TIFF
Single farm payment	2,349	108	2,354	102	2,292	90
Agri-environment schemes	259	12	346	15	410	16
Inseparable non-agricultural activities¹	674	31	710	31	771	30
Total crop output	4,998	230	5,147	223	5,791	228
Total livestock output (meat, milk and eggs)	6,544	301	7,246	315	7,699	303
TIFF	2,171	100	2,303	100	2,538	100
¹ The diversified activity which is included in TIFF is only that which is considered ‘inseparable’. This includes activities such as ‘tourist accommodation and catering’ and ‘farm retailing’.

Volume 472: debated on Thursday 21 February 2008