Question reference: S2W-05207
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: 5 January 2004
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Current status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 14 January 2004
Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what modelling has been done on the impact, under the reformed Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), of basing the single payment on hybrids of area-based and historic approaches and how the results of any such modelling can be publicly accessed in order to inform responses to the second question on the single payment scheme in the consultation paper CAP Reform: Opportunities for Scotland.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has undertaken modelling of the impact of calculating the single farm paymenton various hybrid area‑based approaches and of the historic individualapproach. The results of the modelling are publicly available on the Executive’sCAP Reform website: