Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 21 April 2017.
Matt Warman
Conservative, Boston and Skegness
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many farms in (a) Boston and Skegness constituency, (b) Lincolnshire and (c) England are in receipt of EU subsidies; and how much the total value of the subsidies was in (i) 2014-15 and (ii) 2015-16.
George Eustice
The Minister of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The number of eligible farm businesses in receipt of the Single Payment Scheme for 2014–2015 and the Basic Payment Scheme for 2015-16 and the total value of these in 2014-15 and 2016-16 are summarised in the table below:
2014-2015 | 2015-2016 | |
318 | 307 | |
Lincolnshire | 2,894 | 2,765 |
England | 87,114 | 83,751 |
Total value | £1,403,117,653 | £1,577,170,673 |
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