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Farmers fear for future after Brexit

Farmers fear for future after Brexit
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MPs have raised concerns at delays in payments to farmers and landowners

The Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) expressed concern at delays in payments to farmers and landowners.

A report into the delivery of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) payments, and rural development, raised fears over the Government's attitude to farmers after the UK withdraws from the EU.

The probe criticises the Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) over how it has handled the Basic Payment Scheme, stating: "The department's record of failure when developing systems to support subsidy payments to farmers does not inspire confidence in its ability to cope with the challenges associated with Brexit that lie ahead."

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DEFRA gives £1.8 billion a year in CAP payments to English farmers and landowners and the report warns that the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) is failing to deliver money on time.

Rapid and effective change is required

Richard Bacon

PAC deputy chairman Richard Bacon said: "The recent history of the Basic Payment Scheme is a sorry affair.

"Farmers have suffered badly from the collapse in service levels and Government has done too little to help them cope with the fallout.

"At the same time, taxpayers continue to be hit in the pocket by financial penalties arising from the Government's failure to deliver the scheme properly, penalties running to more than half a billion pounds for England in the current period.

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A report shows that the Rural Payments Agency is failing to deliver farming subsidies on time

"Rapid and effective change is required during what is a critical phase for the Rural Payments Agency, whose chief executive is leaving at the end of this month, and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs more widely.

"If farmers are to be properly supported through Brexit and beyond, it is vital their interests are represented at senior level. In particular, the RPA must be at the table during discussions of any future subsidy payment scheme."


The report states the Government must move to better understand the impact of late payments and learn the lessons from the floods of 2015 "to ensure payments to farmers in times of crisis are not delayed".

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16 per cent of farmers did not receive their payments within three months of the expected deadline

The committee found that RPA paid only 38 per cent of farmers under the Basic Payment Scheme on December 1 2015, the first day of the payment window, compared with more than 90 per cent in previous years.

By the end of January last year, that had climbed to 76 per cent, but at the end of March, there were still 14,300 farmers, 16 per cent, who had not received any payment.

More than 10,000 farmers who had received a payment had not been paid in full.

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Some farmers were forced to sell of assets in order to meet financial obligations

Two thirds of the additional payments made to these farmers were in excess of 1,000 euros and were first paid in September last year, more than nine months after the first monies could have been received.

The report states: "Many farmers who did not receive their payment in a timely manner were forced to seek alternative means of funding. Some had to sell livestock to meet their financial obligations."

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