Asked by: Tom Tugendhat (Conservative - Tonbridge and Malling)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of funding from the new measures announced in paragraph 1.205 of Budget 2016 she plans to allocate for flood defences on the River Medway and its tributaries.
Answered by Rory Stewart
Of the additional £700 million announced at the Budget to be spent on flood defences and resilience, £150m has been allocated to new schemes in Yorkshire and Cumbria. The £40m per year increase in floods maintenance will be spent nationwide according to need. The remaining funding will be allocated following the outcome of the National Flood Resilience Review in the summer.
Asked by: Tom Tugendhat (Conservative - Tonbridge and Malling)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the mean time was between application for payment and receipt of payment of the (a) Basic Farm Payment and (b) Single Farm Payment to individual farms in Kent in the financial year 2014-15.
Answered by George Eustice
We do not hold information on mean time taken between the application for payment and a receipt of payment for the Basic Payment Scheme and the Single Payment Scheme in England.
Like-for-like comparisons cannot be made as the scheme rules and consequent administrative checks are different.
As of 10 March 90.5% of farmers (1,661 of 1,835) in Kent had been paid their BPS claim.
Asked by: Tom Tugendhat (Conservative - Tonbridge and Malling)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the mean time taken was between application for payment and receipt of the (a) Basic Farm Payment and (b) Single Farm Payment to individual farms in the UK in the financial year 2014-15.
Answered by George Eustice
We do not hold information on mean time taken between the application for payment and a receipt of payment for the Basic Payment Scheme and the Single Payment Scheme in England.
Like-for-like comparisons cannot be made as the scheme rules and consequent administrative checks are different.
As of 10 March 90.5% of farmers (1,661 of 1,835) in Kent had been paid their BPS claim.