Professional AdviceYou are here : News and Press » News Archive » Government » Single Farm Payments
|
Call for Government Commitment over 2007 SPS Payments The Country Land and Business Association, The National Farmers Union and the Tenant Farmers Association, today called on the Government to commit to making Single Payment Scheme payments for 2007, either in full or an 80 per cent part payment, this December
The three organisations called for the commitment after meeting Lord Rooker to review the position on the SPS. They were assured that the RPA was on track to make over 96 per cent of payments by the end of June but said the position on the backlog of mistaken allocations and payments stretching back to 2005 remained deeply unsatisfactory. In a joint statement, the CLA, the NFU and the TFA said: "While we appreciate the efforts that have been put in by Lord Rooker and the RPA, we are disappointed at the slow progress in completing the 2006 payments, and the large backlog of wrong allocations and payments. "With this in mind, we have jointly requested that the government should commit itself to make payments for 2007 to farmers in December this year, in full wherever possible, otherwise an 80 per cent part payment." The three organisations also took the opportunity to raise other concerns in the meeting, including the Hill Farming Allowance, the treatment of commons, and sugar payments. |
Contact Media Contacts Ollie Wilson T: 020 7460 7936
T: 020 7460 7934
Join the CLA today
The CLA Game Fair 2012
More articles and documents [News Archive] [27 June 2007] GN13-07 Single Payment Scheme (SPS) Appeals Procedure [Guidance notes] [14 May 2007] EU Common Agriculture Policy: 2008 Health Check [Consultation response archive] [18 February 2008] |
- Policy Topics
- Policy Topics
- Site sections
- Specially for members
© 2012 Country Land and Business Association Limited (CLA). All rights reserved. No part of this website may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, or stored in any retrieval system of any nature without prior written permission of the copyright holder except as expressly permitted by law.
Disclaimer
No responsibility for loss occasioned to any person acting or refraining from action in reliance on or as a result of the material included in or omitted in this website can be or is accepted by the author(s), the CLA or its officers or trustees or employees or any other persons.
The Advisory Services are made available to members on the basis that members' rights to compensation and the liability (if any) of CLA and its officers and/or its staff advisers, are restricted in the following ways. In the event of any advice given by any CLA staff adviser being given negligently or otherwise being incorrect no liability whatsoever is accepted by the CLA or its officers or by its staff advisers concerned
(a) towards any person who is not the current CLA member to whom the advice was directly given,
(b) to any person in the respect of consequential loss or loss of profits, or
(c) to any person for any sum exceeding £50,000 in respect of any one enquiry (whether made or responded to orally or in writing and whether dealt with at one time or over a period of time).
Any person making use of the Advisory Services accepts such restrictions. Members should refer to appropriate professional advisers in private practice before taking any particular course of action potentially or actually involving any substantial amounts of money.
Please note that whilst the advisers are able to advise on a wide range of subjects relating to land ownership, they cannot act in place of a member's own solicitor, accountant, surveyor and tax specialist by, for example, drafting documents or corresponding on their behalf and may be precluded, by the rules of their own professions, from advising one CLA member against another CLA member in the case of conflict.
Solicitors Indemnity Fund . Solicitors in the CLA Legal Team are not covered by the Solicitors Indemnity Fund in relation to professional negligence in relation to any advice given by them.
Please note that from time to time telephone calls maybe recorded for training purposes.