Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 34756

Agriculture: Basic Income

Tabled: 28 February 2025
Answered: 10 March 2025

Question

Neil Duncan-Jordan

Labour — Poole

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the report by Joanna Poulton, Jak Richardson, Kathleen Pollitt and Cleo Goodman entitled Sowing the Seed

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
The report cited by the honourable member proposes a system of untargeted farming subsidy based on regular and unconditional cash payments made to farmers. Evidence suggests that untargeted subsidies such as the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) and delinked pay...
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