Agriculture: Subsidies
(asked on 2nd December 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask His Majesty's Government what impact assessment they made before removing the Basic Payment Scheme.
Answered by
Baroness Hayman of Ullock
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 10th December 2024
Direct Payments under the Basic Payment Scheme in England were replaced with delinked payments at the beginning of 2024. Analysis of the impacts of removing Direct Payments (attached) was included in Defra’s 2019 farming evidence compendium and the 2020 Agriculture Bill Impact Assessment (attached).