Agriculture: Subsidies

(asked on 6th February 2018) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to communicate to farmers how the Basic Payment Scheme will operate in 2020.


Answered by
George Eustice Portrait
George Eustice
This question was answered on 20th February 2018

We plan to guarantee that Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) payments will continue for a transition period in England, lasting a number of years beyond the implementation period. During this transition period, we propose to first reduce the largest BPS payments in England. We will consult widely on both the approach to reducing payments and on how long the transition should be. We will set out further detail in our command paper, which we plan to publish this spring.

Reticulating Splines