Single Payments Scheme

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs – in the House of Commons at 10:30 am on 20 April 2006.

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Photo of John Penrose John Penrose Conservative, Weston-Super-Mare 10:30, 20 April 2006

One of my farmers recently tried to take the Secretary of State to court by issuing a summons for her in the Weston-super-Mare small claims court. The right hon. Lady will doubtless be sad to hear that she has been deprived of the opportunity of coming to visit the beautiful town of Weston-super-Mare because of a legal technicality—but does she agree that that farmer, Paul Bateman, typifies the frustration felt by farmers across the country, particularly when he received a letter from the Rural Payments Agency telling him exactly how much he was owed in euros, but no cheque was enclosed with the letter? Would it not have been simple for someone to have signed a cheque, put it in with the letter and got that one out of the way immediately?

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bryan mcgrath
Posted on 22 Apr 2006 2:54 pm (Report this annotation)

Well JP comes to the attention of the Nation, well at least Simon Carr in the independent parliamentary sketch column.
'A new Conservative MP said' One of my farmers...' You might think that's just a Tory thing; a proprietorial born-to-rule sort of thing. "One of my farmers" (try it). But it's not just Tories, politicians of every sort find themselves doing it'

Well done JP, this and made a PPS all in the same month