Agriculture: Subsidies

(asked on 4th June 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of farmers eligible for the Basic Payment scheme will have registered their claims by the extended deadline of 15 June 2015.


Answered by
George Eustice Portrait
George Eustice
This question was answered on 9th June 2015

The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) has issued all pre-populated Basic Payments Scheme (BPS) 2015 application forms (BP5) and maps.

We expect all those farmers who wish to claim BPS to have registered their claims by the deadline of 15 June. We do not anticipate requesting any further extension of the deadline.

As of 8 June the RPA has received 58,836 completed BPS claims, which is what would be expected at this stage of the claim window. This is good progress as we move towards the deadline.

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