Chamber
Meeting of the Parliament 06 January 2016
06 Jan 2016 · S4 · Meeting of the Parliament
Item of business
Portfolio Question Time
Common Agricultural Policy Basic Payment
Rural Affairs, Food and Environment
Does that mean that 80 per cent of Scotland’s farmers and crofters have yet to receive any CAP payments, which the Government promised they would get before Christmas, even though the Government has spent £178 million on a new computer system?
How many payment region reviews are still outstanding for Shetland alone? What are the implications for less favoured areas support scheme and ewe and beef scheme payments? Will they be late, too? Does the cabinet secretary understand that farmers and crofters from Shetland to Stranraer are fed up, annoyed and worried about their cash flow because of their need to pay feed bills in the flood-ridden winter that Scotland is enduring?
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4. Tavish Scott (Shetland Islands) (LD)
LD
To ask the Scottish Government how many eligible crofters and farmers had not received any common agricultural policy basic payment by 6 January 2016. (S4O-0...
The Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Food and Environment (Richard Lochhead)
SNP
Last week, I confirmed that the Scottish Government had issued basic payment and greening payment to around 3,500 farmers and crofters, totalling around £33 ...
Tavish Scott
LD
Does that mean that 80 per cent of Scotland’s farmers and crofters have yet to receive any CAP payments, which the Government promised they would get before ...
Richard Lochhead
SNP
I very much appreciate the challenges that face crofters and people in the rest of the agriculture sector at the moment, but I know that Parliament is famili...
Margaret McDougall (West Scotland) (Lab)
Lab
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Richard Lochhead
SNP
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