Ian Austin – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ian Austin on 2016-05-19.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much the Rural Payments Agency has made in payments related to the European School Milk Scheme in each region and constituent part of the UK in each year since 2005.
George Eustice
The attached table shows the total UK amounts taken from the annual European accounts for each year from 2005 to 2016. The amounts in the table are the payments made to the organisations that supply milk to schools, which have been claimed back in full from the European Commission by the RPA.
In years 2005 and 2006 the Rural Payments Agency were required to produce the accounts in GBP currency and in years 2007 and later, were required to produce accounts in euro currency to comply with Regulation 883-2006.
|
Year |
Amount |
|
2005 |
6,695,400.64 |
|
2006 |
6,552,414.56 |
|
Total£ |
£13,247,815.20 |
|
2007 |
8,204,965.56 |
|
2008 |
7,893,693.21 |
|
2009 |
7,553,825.13 |
|
2010 |
7,292,814.68 |
|
2011 |
1,900,066.83 |
|
2012 |
4,753,174.39 |
|
2013 |
4,525,499.84 |
|
2014 |
4,382,584.46 |
|
2015 |
4,325,618.91 |
|
Total € |
€ 50,832,243.01 |
The figure for 2011 is a result of a repayment made by the Department of Health, where a decision was taken to fund the cost of the nursery milk provision entirely from their own budget. This resulted in the RPA claiming less from the European Commission that year only.
A breakdown by region and constituent part of the UK could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
