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Agriculture: Subsidies

Volume 488: debated on Friday 6 March 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many warning letters were sent to farmers by the Rural Payments Agency for cross-compliance breaches under the (a) 2005, (b) 2006 and (c) 2007 Single Payment Scheme. (260138)

The number of warning letters sent to farmers by the Rural Payments Agency for breaches of cross compliance in the three years is as follows:

Single payment scheme year

Number of letters issued

2005

369

2006

434

2007

422

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much has been paid in agri-monetary compensation in the county of Hertfordshire since 9 January 2002. (261189)

Unfortunately the data required to provide payment information for earlier years are not held in a form that is easily accessible, and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.