Question
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, pursuant to his Answer of 10th January, Official Report, column 99W, if he will list by value the CAP payments including agri-environment schemes, broken down by individual category which were paid to farmers in Worcestershire in the calendar year 1998. - Includes table.
Answer
Mr. Michael J. Foster: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, pursuant to his answer of 10 January 2000, Official Report, column 99W, if he will list by value the CAP payments including agri-environment schemes, broken down by individual category which were paid to farmers in Worcestershire in the calendar year 1998. [105589] Ms Quin: Provisional figures for CAP payments made to farmers in Hereford and Worcester in 1998 were as follows. £ _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Schemes Payments Arable area payments 25,553,526 Environmentally sensitive area{1} 29,839 Sheep annual premium 8,288,360 Suckler cow premium 6,452,000 Farm woodland premium{1} 216,811 Farm woodland{1} 250,990 Organic aid{1} 34,559 Nitrate sensitive area{1} 31,657 Countryside stewardship{1} 497,908 Habitat{1} 6,838 Beef special premium 6,757,687 Total 48,120,175 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} These amounts include national as well as EU funding Note: Data is not available separately for Worcester because our administration operates on the combined county of Hereford and Worcester. We estimate that Worcester totals are broadly 40 per cent. of the combined total.