CAP Single Payment Scheme Payments

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Dear Pascoe

RE: RFI 786

Thank you for your request for information regarding payments made under
SFP and WES schemes for hill farms in the Allerdale district in Cumbria
which the Access to Information Unit received on 9 February 2009. We have
dealt with your request under the terms of the Environmental Information
Regulations 2004.

RPA has been committed to releasing information on the Common Agricultural
Policy (CAP) payments under EIR and so the majority of this type of
information has already been published by RPA.

 

EC legislation requires the UK to publish details of recipients of CAP
subsidy payments on a single website containing:

· trading title (ie the name in which the claim is made),

· payments for the year broken down into SPS and related payments,
and Rural Development Programme payments,

· local town and the first three or four digits of the recipient's
postcode.

A CD is available which contains payment information for the 2002-2003
EAGGF Financial year. The EAGGF Financial year runs from 16 October to the
following 15 October. If you would like to obtain this CD, please provide
us with a postal address and we will post it to you.

I can also refer you to CAP payments by geographic location for the EAGGF
year 2003-04 and 2004-05, which can be found on the RPA website
[1]www.rpa.gov.uk

Please click on the following links from the homepage:

1.'About RPA'

2.'CAP Payments for EAGGF year 2003 - 2004' or 'CAP Payments for EAGGF
year 2004-2005.

The following website went live on 30 September which shows details of
amounts received by UK beneficiaries under the CAP:

[2]http://www.cap-payments.defra.gov.uk/

The information is provided on this website is in accordance with
[3]Commission Regulation (EC) No 259/2008.

The details included on this website relate solely to beneficiaries of
rural development schemes during the period 1 January 2007 to 15 October
2007. No details are currently shown for the Single Payment Scheme or
other 'Pillar 1' schemes. From 30 April 2009 details will be added for
beneficiaries of all CAP schemes, including SPS, during the year from 16
October 2007 to 15 October 2008.

Unfortunately RPA is unable to breakdown these figures by agricultural
sectors. Under regulation 12 (4) b of the EIR a request can be refused if
we believe the request to be manifestly unreasonable. A limit has been set
at £600 for central government, calculated at 3½ days work at a flat
rate of £25 per person per hour. Unfortunately the data required to
respond to your request is not held in a form that is easily accessible.
As the extraction and collation of this data would require a considerable
amount of work, we believe that complying with your request would incur
costs in excess of the limit. Therefore we are unable to release the
information you have requested.

RPA has also been issued with a Decision Notice requiring us to release
previously unpublished information on CAP payments. This decision was
reached in response to a complaint made under the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act and the Environmental Information Regulations.

The Decision Notice, issued by the Information Commissioner's Office,
requires RPA to release the following information for all those who have
received any CAP payment between October 1999 and October 2005.

· Full name of recipient.

· Business identification number.

· Address of recipient.

· Postcode of recipient.

· Amount of payment.

· Date of payment.

· Name of CAP scheme under which the payment was made.

· CAP scheme code.

RPA will continue to release data on subsequent scheme years to the owners
of this website but will not publish it directly.

For further details of the campaign for EU transparency that led to this
complaint or to view any data on this, go to [4]www.farmsubsidy.org.

If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your
request and wish to make a complaint, you should write to Stephen Briggs,
Head of Customer Relations Unit at RPA, Kings House, 33 Kings Road,
Reading, RG1 3BU, within 40 working days, who will arrange for an internal
review of your case. 

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have
the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a
decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:

Information Commissioner's Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

If you have any queries about this letter, please contact the ATI Unit.
Please quote the reference number above in any future communications.

Yours sincerely,

Rhys Howroyd

Assistant Manager

Access To Information Unit

Rural Payments Agency

PO Box 69

Reading

RG1 3YD

Tel        0118 953 1259

Fax        0118 953 1467

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