Agriculture: Subsidies

(asked on 4th September 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 change there has been in the level of farm subsidies in each of the last five years.


Answered by
George Eustice Portrait
George Eustice
This question was answered on 11th September 2015

Details of all payments made under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) are published annually by the UK Co-ordinating Body. The total CAP payments for the UK for each of the last five years are as follows:

Figures are Euro millions

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

Direct Payments

3,424

3,309

3,348

3,326

3,234

Rural Development

913

1,018

1,085

1,091

1,065

Total

4,337

4,327

4,433

4,417

4,299

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