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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the mean time taken was between application for payment and receipt of the (a) Basic Farm Payment and (b) Single Farm Payment to individual farms in the UK in the financial year 2014-15.

We do not hold information on mean time taken between the application for payment and a receipt of payment for the Basic Payment Scheme and the Single Payment Scheme in England.

Like-for-like comparisons cannot be made as the scheme rules and consequent administrative checks are different.

As of 10 March 90.5% of farmers (1,661 of 1,835) in Kent had been paid their BPS claim.