§ Mr. LawsTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what her estimate is of the proportion of her Department's budget which is spent on food, fishing and farming and which is discretionary, rather than being passed through from the European Union; and if she will make a statement. [105082]
§ Alun MichaelOf the Department's Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL) budget, 4.8 per cent. is allocated to the Food, Farming and Fisheries Directorate-General, and 14.8 percent. of that allocation is to cover national expenditure under various European Union (EU) schemes, that is expenditure which is additional to that provided by the European Union. No EU funds relating to this Directorate-General's budget are passed through the Department's DEL.