My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend. In broad terms, £1.6 billion is the very sizeable sum of public money that will be paid out under the single payment scheme. Let me give the latest figures: at the close of business on Friday last, March 21, the RPA had made payments to 18,507 claimants, which is 15.4 per cent of the total, to a value of over £135 million.
Rural Payments Agency
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Bach
(Labour)
in the House of Lords on Monday, 27 March 2006.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on Rural Payments Agency.
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