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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of (a) the total and value of grants issued under the Countryside Productivity Scheme in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement.

To date, 297 grant funding agreements have been issued for capital grants with a total value of £6,617,384. These are contributing to projects with a total cost of £17.9 million.

108 of the grant funding agreements, with a value of £1,170,980, were issued in 2015. The remaining 189, with a value of £5,446,404 have been issued to date in 2016. Countryside Productivity grants were not available prior to 2015.