Farming Delinked Payments 2023-07-06
2023-07-06
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Q1
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The question concerns regulations planned for the delinking of payments from the legacy basic payment scheme.
When she plans to bring forward regulations to introduce delinked payments from 2024.
The Government plan to bring forward regulations to delink payments later this year, as the parliamentary timetable allows. Those regulations will introduce delinked payments in 2024, as planned.
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Q2
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The question concerns the confirmation of delinked payments in 2024 and the impact on farmers' land use decisions.
Delinking the legacy basic payment scheme payments from the need to have land area entitlements could be a really powerful catalyst for change. It would free the Rural Payments Agency and farmers from the bureaucracy of the legacy scheme; remove a very difficult distortion from the land market; and, crucially, free farmers up to make decisions about what to do with their land in future. Since farmers are making decisions about next year's land use now, will my right hon. Friend take this opportunity to confirm from the Dispatch Box that the delinked payments will happen next year, and that there will be no reversal of that plan?
I am happy to confirm that, and I pay tribute to my right hon. Friend for all the work he did to get us to this point. Of course, we will be bringing forward the legislation to delink those payments next year.
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