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 farm registrations have been made (a) online and (b) by telephone to date; and what the average cost has been of each such transaction.
As of 22 February there have been 47,234 customer or agent registrations on the Rural Payments Service, of which there have been (a) 1,802 online registrations (via Verify) and (b) 45,432 registrations by telephone (via the Rural Payments Identity Check). The average cost per registration has not been calculated.