§ Mr. TippingTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list by county the payments made under the arable payments scheme in(a) 1994 and (b) 1995. [1620]
§ Mr. BaldryThe table gives the total arable area payments claimed in 1994 and 1995 on land situated in each county of England. The total amounts paid will have been slightly lower because of reductions made for various reasons. However, since such reductions normally have to be calculated on the basis of the total claim, which may include land in more than one county, it is not possible to give figures for the total amounts paid on a county basis.
In preparing the answer to this question the Department became aware that a similar question tabled by the hon. Member last year had been answered incorrectly—Official Report, 1 November 1995, columns 330–31. The payment rates used to calculate the reply to last year's question were those for 1995–96, but should have been those for 1994–95. The reply to the present question is based on the appropriate payment rate for each year and I should like to apologise to the hon. Member for the error in the earlier reply.
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1994 £ 1995 £ Avon 3,834,873 4,912,074 Bedfordshire 16,332,344 20,133,849 Berkshire 9,436,680 12,566,987 Buckinghamshire 13,990,699 18,206,193 Cambridgeshire 49,220,159 61,047,000 Cheshire 6,238,759 7,682,995 Cleveland 3,895,782 4,915,710 Cornwall 8,913,812 11,561,419 Cumbria 3,082,104 4,388,086 Derbyshire 7,847,602 9,933,686 Devonshire 14,784,740 18,550,765 Dorset 14,158,884 17,556,992 Durham 10,048,182 13,237,863 Essex 46,408,137 60,167,194 Gloucestershire 21,198,680 26,464,918 Greater London 1,124,506 1,491,671 Greater Manchester 1,266,424 1,579,463 Hampshire 27,851,347 36,120,786 Hereford and Worcester 23,409,796 30,243,714 Hertfordshire 17,029,233 21,907,019 Humberside 48,579,248 63,134,365 Isle of Wight 2,410,416 3,173,252 Kent 29,148,718 37,661,073 Lancashire 4,101,642 5,481,222 Leicestershire 25,293,521 33,710,741 Lincolnshire 84,091,244 109,053,918 Merseyside 2,368,336 2,830,996 Norfolk 53,904,001 68,677,939 Northamptonshire 28,335,993 37,555,697 Northumberland 21,516,082 29,355,781 Nottinghamshire 22,962,444 29,072,460 Oxfordshire 29,288,191 39,563,388 Shropshire 19,214,700 24,926,532 Somerset 11,739,320 14,331,353 Staffordshire 11,406,725 14,849,617 Suffolk 45,862,431 57,980,137 Surrey 3,644,871 4,686,336 East Sussex 7,762,038 9,657,012 West Sussex 11,810,644 14,302,526 Tyne and Wear 2,176,892 2,980,858 Warwickshire 19,858,598 25,219,284 West Midlands 1,350,564 1,709,376 Wiltshire 29,138,065 36,309,115 North Yorkshire 50,605,566 64,251,530 South Yorkshire 11,150,061 14,004,739 West Yorkshire 5,934,395 7,659,284