Written Question · S2W-01851 · Session 2
Whether it will maintain the present year's Less Favoured Area Support Scheme payments at the total of #63 million paid out last year; what…
The question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will maintain the present year's Less Favoured Area Support Scheme payments at the total of #63 million paid out last year; what representations it has received on this issue, and whether it will make an announcement on the matter.
The answer
The current budget of theLess Favoured Area Support Scheme is £61 million per year. An additional £2million was made available in 2003 only, in recognition both of the importanceof the Less Favoured Area Support Scheme to farmers and crofters, and of thedifficulties that they had experienced as a result of foot-and-mouth disease.
No formal representationshave been made about the budget for the Less Favoured Area Support Scheme,although some members of the Less Favoured Area Support Scheme Industry WorkingGroup have indicated that retaining the existing level of expenditure would betheir preference.
An announcement about thechanges required to adapt the Less Favoured Area Support Scheme to anexpenditure level of £61 million will be made in due course.
No formal representationshave been made about the budget for the Less Favoured Area Support Scheme,although some members of the Less Favoured Area Support Scheme Industry WorkingGroup have indicated that retaining the existing level of expenditure would betheir preference.
An announcement about thechanges required to adapt the Less Favoured Area Support Scheme to anexpenditure level of £61 million will be made in due course.
In the Official Report
No contribution in the Official Report cites S2W-01851 by reference.