Whether money has been diverted from the Agri-Environment budget heads in the last 12 months and, if so, how much has been transferred and …

Answered Asked by Mike Rumbles LD Lodged 10 Dec 1999

The question

To ask the Scottish Executive whether money has been diverted from the Agri-Environment budget heads in the last 12 months and, if so, how much has been transferred and to which budgets.

The answer

Answered by Ross Finnie on 24 Dec 1999 · 14 days after it was lodged, on time

Agri-environment expenditure in 1998-99 was £12.5 million compared to provision of £18.2 million. In accordance with general arrangements, in-year estimating savings were re-allocated to meet pressures for additional spending on other Structural and Agri-Environmental measures.

In the Official Report

No contribution in the Official Report cites S1W-03195 by reference.