Agriculture: Single Farm Payments

Lord Livsey of Talgarth Excerpts
Tuesday 20th July 2010

(14 years, 4 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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My Lords, we will look at both options. I note that my noble friend used the words “a damning indictment”; I will say only that there are some fairly tough messages for the Rural Payments Agency and leave it at that.

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My Lords, given the statistics about the waiting list for single farm payments, will the Minister acknowledge that the system in Wales uses GIS technology? Will he urge the RPA to adopt it because there are practically no problems with it?