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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much the 50 largest landowners in the UK received from the Single Farm Payment scheme in the last year for which data is available.

The UK’s 50 largest value claims under the Single Payment Scheme (SPS) totalled £44,424,980 for the EU Financial Year 2013. Information is not available on whether they are landowners or tenants.

Details of payments made in EU Financial Year 2014 will be published on the UK’s CAP beneficiary website on 31 May 2015.