Agriculture: Wales

(asked on 1st February 2021) - View Source

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

To ask Her Majesty's Government how much money they estimate was provided by the European Economic Community to support agriculture in Wales in 1991; and how much such money was provided by the EU in (1) 2000, (2) 2010, and (3) 2019.


This question was answered on 15th February 2021

The following estimated amounts to support agriculture were paid by the Welsh Office Agriculture Department / Welsh Government under Common Agricultural Policy schemes in the years shown:

- 1991 £42.757 million;

- 2000 £175.620 million;

- 2010 £321.185 million;

- 2019 £318.311 million.

The above figures exclude market measures paid for the whole of the UK by the Intervention Board / Rural Payments Agency.

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