§ Mr. FlynnTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many annual payments to individual farms for set-aside land exceeded(a) £25,000, (b) £100,000, (c) £250,000 and (d) £1,000,000 per annum in each of the past four years. [95817]
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§ Ms Quin[holding answer 28 October 1999]: Set-aside payments under the Arable Area Payments Scheme are made in respect of claims which may include one or more individual farms. Records therefore relate to claims paid rather than numbers of farms. The following is the information requested in respect of the set-aside element of each claim paid by MAFF in 1995–98 (with figures given on a cumulative basis—ie lines (b) to (d) are included in (a) etc.):
Number of payments exceeding 1995 1996 1997 1998 (a) £25,000 673 401 139 111 (b) £100,000 11 12 3 2 (c) £250,000 2 0 0 0 (d) £1,000,000 0 0 0 0