Asked by: Matt Warman (Conservative - Boston and Skegness)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many farms in (a) Boston and Skegness constituency, (b) Lincolnshire and (c) England are in receipt of EU subsidies; and how much the total value of the subsidies was in (i) 2014-15 and (ii) 2015-16.
Answered by George Eustice
The number of eligible farm businesses in receipt of the Single Payment Scheme for 2014–2015 and the Basic Payment Scheme for 2015-16 and the total value of these in 2014-15 and 2016-16 are summarised in the table below:
| 2014-2015 | 2015-2016 |
Boston and Skegness Constituency | 318 | 307 |
Lincolnshire | 2,894 | 2,765 |
England | 87,114 | 83,751 |
Total value | £1,403,117,653 | £1,577,170,673 |