Mel Stride: Defra: Written Answers (1)

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Written Question

Hill Farming

Thursday 12th June 2014

Asked by: Mel Stride (Conservative - Central Devon)

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to support moorland farmers.

Answered by George Eustice

We will almost double the direct payment rate in the moorland from 2015. We will also equalise the payment rates in the Severely Disadvantaged Area and the lowland. Taken together, these changes will distribute direct payments more equitably across English farms. They will also ensure that upland farmers on large areas of moorland are not put at a disadvantage in comparison with other upland farmers.