HC Deb 22 April 2004 vol 420 c582W
19. Nick Harvey

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessments her Department has made of the effects of her proposals for single farm payments with respect to(a) tenant farmers, (b) new entrants and (c) farmers in severely disadvantaged areas; and if she will make a statement. [167026]

Alun Michael

Defra will publish shortly an analysis of the economic impact on the English farming industry of the decoupling of CAP direct payment and the decision to allocate entitlement on the basis set out in my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State's Statements to the House on 12 February and earlier today.

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