Agriculture: Subsidies

(asked on 21st March 2018) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, in what proportion of farm holdings boundaries changed as a result of this year’s re-mapping by the Rural Payments Agency.


Answered by
George Eustice Portrait
George Eustice
This question was answered on 26th March 2018

The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) is required to demonstrate compliance with the EU rules by keeping our mapping up to date or run the risk of significant disallowance. Updates to our maps are based on the intelligence we receive from Ordnance Survey; aerial photography; inspection outcomes; and requests made by farmers.

The RPA don’t capture information on what individual parcel boundary changes were the result of the exercise to update their mapping, in line with EU requirements, and what changes were the result of farmer changes to field management.

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