Agriculture: Subsidies

(asked on 13th April 2017) - View Source

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 Portrait
George Eustice
This question was answered on 21st April 2017

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

Reticulating Splines