HC Deb 25 January 2000 vol 343 cc188-9W
Mr. Michael J. Foster

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, pursuant to his answer of 10 January 2000,Official Report, column 99W, if he will list by value the CAP payments including agri-environment schemes, broken down by individual category which were paid to farmers in Worcestershire in the calendar year 1998. [105589]

Ms Quin

Provisional figures for CAP payments made to farmers in Hereford and Worcester in 1998 were as follows.

£
Schemes Payments
Arable area payments 25,553,526
Environmentally sensitive area1 29,839
Sheep annual premium 8,288,360
Suckler cow premium 6,452,000
Farm woodland premium1 216,811
Farm woodland1 250,990
Organic aid1 34,559
Nitrate sensitive area1 31,657
Countryside stewardship1 497,908
Habitat1 6,838
Beef special premium 6,757,687
Total 48,120,175
1 These amounts include national as well as EU funding

Note:

Data is not available separately for Worcester because our administration operates on the combined county of Hereford and Worcester. We estimate that Worcester totals are broadly 40 per cent. of the combined total.

Mr. Michael J. Foster

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what the total value was of CAP payments made to Worcestershire farmers in the calendar years 1990 to 1997. [105497]

Ms Quin

The total value of CAP payments to farmers in Hereford and Worcester for the years 1994–97 were as follows:

£
1994 41,755,007
1995 49,161,871
1996 54,819,063
1997 49,498,031

Finalised data are not available separately for Worcestershire because our administration operates on the combined county of Hereford and Worcester.

These totals include national as well as EU funding.

Data for 1990–93 are unavailable as computer systems were not in place at that time.

Mr. Michael J. Foster

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, pursuant to his answers of 10 January 2000,Official Report, column 99W, if he will list the 10 largest recipients of CAP payments made to farms in Worcestershire in the calendar year 1998. [105512]

Ms Quin

Such a list is commercially sensitive, and as such the rules of confidentiality preclude disclosure and publication.

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