Sugar: Subsidies
(asked on 23rd March 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much the UK contributes towards the subsidisation of sugar production.
This question was answered on 5th April 2016
Sugar production is not directly subsidised in the UK. However, sugar beet growers in the UK are entitled to make a claim for support under the Basic Payment Scheme of the Common Agricultural Policy.