Agriculture: Subsidies

(asked on 26th November 2020) - View Source

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

What steps he is taking to ensure that farmers continue to receive financial support after the transition period.


Answered by
Victoria Prentis Portrait
Victoria Prentis
Attorney General
This question was answered on 26th November 2020

In our 2019 manifesto we promised to maintain the current annual budget to farmers for the lifetime of this parliament. When we made this commitment in 2019, the total farm support provided to Welsh farmers that year was £337 million. For 2021/22, the UK government have therefore provided new exchequer funding on top of the remaining £95 million of EU funding to ensure that £337 million of support continues to go to Welsh farmers this year.

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