Asked by: Jesse Norman (Conservative - Hereford and South Herefordshire)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the total value is of Common Agricultural Policy payments to farms in Herefordshire in the last five years for which data are available.
Answered by George Eustice
Our records do not currently distinguish between farms and other claimants; the figure provided relates to all eligible claimants paid (including farms).
The total value of all Common Agricultural Policy claims paid by the Rural Payments Agency and the Forestry Commission to all claimants with a registered address in Herefordshire during the 5 years up to 15 October 2013 was €261,476,438.25.