Single Farm Payments

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Wales – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 4 July 2007.

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Photo of Paul Flynn Paul Flynn Labour, Newport West 11:30, 4 July 2007

May I say, llongyfarchiadau i'r gweinidog newydd? The real scandal of the single payment is that it costs the average family in Wales £450 a year in farm tax. Is not the problem that the single payment is almost a payment for life for farmers, even if they stop farming altogether? One farmer in Wales recently left farming and sold his single payment allocation to a speculator. Should we not stop that scandal and make sure that the single payments, which are rip-offs for the taxpayer, are phased out?