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Agriculture: Buckinghamshire

Volume 495: debated on Wednesday 8 July 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much funding his Department allocated to the development of agricultural businesses in (a) Milton Keynes and (b) Buckinghamshire in each of the last five years. (283681)

Data on total spend are not available at constituency or county level. The table gives, by financial year, funding allocated to the development of agricultural businesses in the South East region. These figures include payments made under rural development programmes, which includes agri-environment payments, and payments made directly to agricultural businesses by the South East of England Development Agency.

Total (£)

2004-05

4,966,000

2005-06

6,166,000

2006-07

5,437,000

2007-08

4,972,000

2008-09

5,793,000

Grand total

127,334,000

1 Source: DEFRA, Natural England, South East England Development Agency. Figures rounded up or down to the nearest thousand.