§ Lord Burtonasked Her Majesty's Government:
How many IACS (Integrated Administration and Control System) application forms were received by the Scottish Office from Scottish farmers for 1997. [HL3609]
§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Scottish Office (Lord Sewel)The Scottish Office received 22,397 IACS applications from Scottish farmers in 1997.
§ Lord Burtonasked Her Majesty's Government:
How many Scottish farmers have not yet been fully paid their IACS (Integrated Administration and Control System) grant for 1997. [HL3610]
§ Lord SewelOf some 100,259 claims made in 1997 by Scottish farmers under the five schemes subject to the Integrated Administrative and Control System, 96,321 have been paid in full. The eligibility of the remainder is still being investigated.
§ Lord Burtonasked Her Majesty's Government:
With regard to IACS (Integrated Administration and Control System) grants, whether there have been difficulties over Ordnance Survey numbers. [HL3611]
§ Lord SewelThere have been no recent problems over OS Field numbers in England, Wales or Northern Ireland. Scotland, however, experienced some difficulty in introducing a new Field Identification System which allocated new field identification numbers to over 500,000 fields on 30,000 farms. This was an extremely difficult and highly complex system to introduce. The problems have now been resolved.
Ordnance Survey also experienced significant delays in the generation and allocation of the new Field Identifiers when the quality of the source data, i.e. original mapping submitted by producers, was of poor quality and the extent of individual fields was not clearly delineated. However, most of those problems were resolved some time ago and Ordnance Survey updates the database when new changes are received, e.g. splitting a field into two parts.