Question reference: S2W-05208
- 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 data it has showing how funding would be redistributed across regions and agricultural sectors under single payments based on hybrids of area-based and historic approaches following Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has undertaken modelling into the redistributive effect of differentapproaches to calculating the single farm payment. This shows how funding wouldbe redistributed at regional level under the historic approach compared with anumber of hybrid area-based models. The results of the modelling are publiclyavailable on the Executive’s CAP Reform website: