Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Minutes of Evidence

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Here you can browse the Minutes of Evidence which were ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 27 April 2006.

Oral evidence

Taken before the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee

on Wednesday 11 January 2006

Members present:

Mr Michael Jack, in the Chair

Mr David Drew	Mr Jamie Reed
Patrick Hall	Mr Dan Rogerson
Lynne Jones	Sir Peter Soulsby
Daniel Kawczynski	David Taylor
David Lepper	Mr Roger Williams

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CONTENTS

Memorandum submitted by the Rural Payments Agency

Witnesses: Lord Bach, a Member of the House of Lords, Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Sustainable Farming and Food), Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Mr Johnston McNeill, Chief Executive, Rural Payments Agency, Mr Ian Hewett, Operations Director, Rural Payments Agency, and Mr John O'Gorman, Head of Defra's CAP Implementation Unit, gave evidence.

Question Numbers

1-19

20-39

40-59

60-79

80-99

100-119

120-139

140-153

Letter from the Rt Hon Michael Jack MP, Chairman, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee to Lord Bach, Minister for Sustainable Farming and Food (RPA 12)

Letter from the Rt Hon Michael Jack MP, Chairman, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee to Lord Bach, Minister for Sustainable Farming and Food (RPA 12)

Letter submitted by Lord Bach, Minister for Sustainable Farming and Food, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (RPA 12)

Supplementary memorandum submitted by Defra (RPA 12)

Memorandum submitted by NFU Cymru (RPA 01)

Memorandum submitted by HSBC Bank plc (RPA 02)

Memorandum submitted by Barclays Bank PLC (RPA 03)

Memorandum submitted by the Tenant Farmers Association (RPA 05)

Memorandum submitted by Accenture (RPA 06)

Memorandum submitted by the National Farmers' Union (NFU) (RPA 07)

Memorandum submitted by the Country Land and Business Association (CLA) (RPA 08)

Memorandum submitted by the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) (RPA 09)

Memorandum submitted by the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers (CAAV) (RPA 10)

Memorandum submitted by Dr J Jones, Head of Farm Management at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester (RPA 11)

APPENDIX Memorandum of personal experiences of the RPA Implementation of the Single Payment Scheme by John Peter Michael Scawen, Earl of Lytton BSc FRICS

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Prepared 2 May 2006