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Author :Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :12 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (53 download)
Book Synopsis The Rural Payments Agency and the Implementation of the Single Payment Scheme by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
Download or read book The Rural Payments Agency and the Implementation of the Single Payment Scheme written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215033383 Total Pages :74 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (333 download)
Book Synopsis The Rural Payments Agency and the implementation of the Single Payment Scheme by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
Download or read book The Rural Payments Agency and the implementation of the Single Payment Scheme written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-03-29 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The EU Single Payment Scheme replaced 11 previous subsidies to farmers based on agricultural production with one payment for land management. The European Commission gave some discretion to Member States over how to implement the scheme, and the Rural Payments Agency (RPA), which is responsible for administering the scheme in England, opted for the dynamic hybrid model which incorporates elements of previous entitlement and new regionalised area payments based on a flat rate per hectare. A NAO report (HCP 1631, session 2005-06, ISBN 9780102943399), published in October 2006, found that the RPA underestimated the risks and complexities involved in implementing the hybrid model, and the IT system was never tested as a whole before the scheme was introduced. It failed to adequately pilot land registration, and underestimated the amount of work involved in both mapping the land and processing each claim, having to rely on often inexperienced temporary and agency staff to clear the backlog. The difficulties were not picked up early enough, neither by the RPA nor Defra, for corrective action to be taken in time, resulting in the RPA's failure to meet its own payment targets. Delayed payments have cost farmers money in additional interest and bank charges, and caused distress to a significant minority of farmers, particularly hill farmers. The cost of implementing the scheme was budgeted at £76 million but rose to £122 million by March 2006, with further cost increases likely. Following on from a previous Committee report on the RPA (HCP 840, session 2005-06, ISBN 9780215027115), published in January 2006 and in light of the NAO findings, this report focuses on aspects of policy decision-making and political accountability raised by the problems with the Single Payment Scheme. The Committee concludes the Scheme has been a catastrophe for some farmers and a serious and embarrassing failure for Defra and the RPA, and Defra's fundamental failure to carry out one of its core tasks (that is to pay farmers their financial entitlements on time) differentiates this issue from the myriad of botched Government IT projects. There is a need for greater expertise within government in the delivery of such complex IT projects, and the report also criticises the quality of advice given by the Office of Government Commerce and the IT system designed by Accenture as the principal IT contractor. Defra determined the policies which it required the RPA to implement and Defra leadership was at fault for accepting RPA statements that implementing the complex hybrid model to deadline was "do-able". The Committee argues that responsibility for this failure goes wider than the dismissal of the RPA chief executive, and ministers and senior Defra officials should also be held to account, particularly Margaret Beckett (the then Defra Secretary of State), Sir Brian Bender, (the former Defra Permanent Secretary) and Andy Lebrecht (the Director General for Sustainable Farming, Food and Fisheries). It concludes that a departmental failure as serious as this should result in the removal from office of those responsible for faulty policy design and implementation, and it recommends that new guidance on Ministerial accountability is needed in the event of such serious departmental failure.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215033390 Total Pages :318 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (333 download)
Book Synopsis The Rural Payments Agency and the implementation of the Single Payment Scheme by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
Download or read book The Rural Payments Agency and the implementation of the Single Payment Scheme written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-03-29 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating HCP 840 and HCP 1071, session 2005-06. For main report, see HCP 107-I (ISBN 9780215033383)
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee Publisher : ISBN 13 :9780215035486 Total Pages :12 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (354 download)
Book Synopsis The Rural Payments Agency and the Implementation of the Single Payment Scheme by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
Download or read book The Rural Payments Agency and the Implementation of the Single Payment Scheme written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee and published by . This book was released on 2007-07-24 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government response to HCP 107-I, session 2006-07 (ISBN 9780215033386)
Book Synopsis A progress update in resolving the difficulties in administering the single payment scheme in England by : Great Britain: National Audit Office
Download or read book A progress update in resolving the difficulties in administering the single payment scheme in England written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-12-12 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was a report in October 2006 (HC 1631 2005-06) which looked at the problems in administering the 2005 single payments scheme in England. This report follows up by examining the progress made in resolving outstanding problems from 2005 and processing 2006 payments. It concludes that the new management team has instilled a clearer sense of direction and virtually all the outstanding 2005 payments were made by the end of December 2006. However the Agency has identified 34,499 cases where there might be errors in the original calculations and the review of most of these cases will be completed by the end of 2007. In the interim errors in payments in the first year were likely to have been repeated in the second year and the Agency was not able to administer the 2006 single payments scheme in a fully cost-effective manner.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215521842 Total Pages :44 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (218 download)
Book Synopsis A Progress Update in Resolving the Difficulties in Administering the Single Payment Scheme in England by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts
Download or read book A Progress Update in Resolving the Difficulties in Administering the Single Payment Scheme in England written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Single Payment Scheme replaced previous European Union production-based agricultural subsidy schemes from 2005. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, through the Rural Payments Agency, had chosen to implement the most complex option for reform in the shortest possible timescale, and the Agency had badly underestimated the scale of the task. This led to delays in making payments to farmers, erroneous payments and additional project and administrative costs, as reported in the Committee's earlier report (55th report session 2006-07, HC 893, ISBN 9780215036179). The Agency has estimated that there were £20 million of overpayments for the 2005 Scheme, and £17.4 million for the 2006 Scheme. The Agency has taken little action to recover the identified overpayments, with the risk that farmers may have unknowingly spent the money in the interim. Of 19 overpayments in excess of £50,000 paid in August 2006, the Agency had started the recovery process with only two of the farmers affected. Major changes made to the Agency's IT systems have enabled most farmers to receive payments earlier under the 2006 Scheme than for the 2005 Scheme. There has been a substantial impact on the costs of the business change programme to improve the Agency's efficiency, and the total project cost is now likely to exceed £300 million. In mid 2007, staff numbers in the Agency peaked at 4,600 and are not expected to reduce to 3,500 until 2010. The Agency is still not able to offer adequate advice to farmers on the progress of their claim. It was reluctant to specify targets by when such information would be available and when payments would be made under the 2008 Scheme.
Book Synopsis A second progress update on the administration of the single payment scheme by the Rural Payments Agency by : Great Britain: National Audit Office
Download or read book A second progress update on the administration of the single payment scheme by the Rural Payments Agency written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by Stationery Office. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rural Payments Agency and DEFRA have shown scant regard to protecting public money in their administration and management of the EU's Single Payment Scheme in England. The IT system does not meet the scheme's needs, the cost of processing claims has continued to increase and the administration of the scheme is not value for money. Payments to farmers have been made earlier, but the concerns over value for money previously raised by the National Audit Office and the Committee of Public Accounts have not been addressed. Under the 2008 scheme over 96 per cent of farmers were paid by mid May 2009, compared to 80 per cent by the same month for the 2006 scheme. However, the cost of the scheme is high and increasing: the average cost per claim is £1,743, an increase of 22 per cent on the 2005 scheme. (It compares to a cost of £285 per claim under the simpler Scottish system.) The report highlights additional administration costs of £304 million as a result of needing more staff than anticipated, £280 million set aside for disallowance and penalties, and the Agency anticipates that a further £43 million of overpayments will be irrecoverable. IT upgrades and maintenance since 2007, costing £130 million, have resulted in heavy customisation with complex software that is expensive and reliant on contractors to maintain. The cost of correcting earlier mistakes in processing claims has amounted to £119 million and overpayments are likely to be between £55 million and £90 million.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Accounts Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215542588 Total Pages :48 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (425 download)
Book Synopsis A Second Progress Update on the Administration of the Single Payment Scheme by the Rural Payments Agency by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Accounts Committee
Download or read book A Second Progress Update on the Administration of the Single Payment Scheme by the Rural Payments Agency written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Accounts Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2009 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third report in 3 years on the subject of administration in England of the £1.6 billion Single Payment Scheme by the Rural Payments Agency and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (HCP 98, session 2009-10, ISBN 9780215542588), and follows an NAO report (HCP 880, session 2008-09, ISBN 9780102963182). The Committee states that oversight of the Single Payment Scheme is a singular example of comprehensively poor administration on a grand scale. With a paucity of good management information in the Agency and the complacent oversight by the Department having acted to obscure the true situation. A focus over the last two and a half years in bringing forward payments to farmers has enabled the Agency to bring its deadline forward by nearly seven weeks, but this is still six weeks off the deadline it had planned and a long way short of the standards set in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Also there has been a negligible attention to the protection of tax payers' interests. The Rural Payments Agency has spent £350 million on a cumbersome IT system that can only be supported at huge cost and which is increasingly at risk of becoming obsolete, with the data held in the system remaining riddled with errors and efforts to recover overpayments having been slow, disorganised and haphazard. The Committee identifies poor leadership within the Agency and a lack of attention by the Department. Each claim costs over six times more to process in England than in Scotland. Further the Department was not able to demonstrate an adequate grasp of the costs of administering the scheme. The Committee states that responsibility rests with the Accounting Officers to resolve this misadministration.
Book Synopsis Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and Rural Payments Agency by : Great Britain. National Audit Office
Download or read book Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and Rural Payments Agency written by Great Britain. National Audit Office and published by Stationery Office/Tso. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The EU Single Payment Scheme replaced 11 previous subsidies to farmers based on agricultural production with one payment for land management. The European Commission gave some discretion to Member States over how to implement the scheme, and the Rural Payments Agency, which is responsible for administering the scheme in England, opted for the dynamic hybrid model which incorporates elements of previous entitlement and new regionalised area payments based on a flat rate per hectare. This NAO report examines the problems encountered by the Agency and by Defra in the implementation of the scheme in England. It finds that the timetable to introduce the scheme was tight, but became tighter following changes to the original specification of the IT system. The Agency underestimated the risks and complexities involved, and the IT system was never tested as a whole before the scheme was introduced, with problems arising once it went live. The Agency did not adequately pilot land registration and underestimated the amount of work involved in mapping the land. It also underestimated the amount of work involved in processing each claim, and had to rely on often inexperienced temporary and agency staff to clear the backlog. Problems in implementing the Scheme were not picked up early enough, both by the Agency and Defra, for corrective action to be taken in time. These difficulties resulted in the Agencys failure to meet its own target to pay 96 per cent of payments by the end of March 2006, and have undermined the farming industrys confidence in the Agency. Delayed payments have cost farmers money in additional interest and bank charges, and caused distress to a significant minority of farmers, particularly hill farmers. The cost of implementing the scheme was budgeted at £76 million but rose to £122 million by March 2006, with further cost increases likely. There is a risk that errors in payments and other procedural mistakes will result in the European Commission disallowing a substantial amount of the expenditure; and the Agency is unlikely to be able to remedy all the problems identified in time for the 2006 scheme.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215036179 Total Pages :70 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (361 download)
Book Synopsis The delays in administering the 2005 Single Payment Scheme in England by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts
Download or read book The delays in administering the 2005 Single Payment Scheme in England written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-09-06 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The EU Single Payment Scheme replaced 11 previous subsidies to farmers based on agricultural production with one payment for land management. The European Commission gave some discretion to Member States over how to implement the scheme, and the Rural Payments Agency, which is responsible for administering the scheme in England, opted for the dynamic hybrid model which incorporates elements of previous entitlement and new regionalised area payments based on a flat rate per hectare. The Agency and Defra encountered severe problems in the implementation of the scheme in England, and by the end of March 2006, it had paid farmers only 15 per cent of the £1,515 million due, compared with its target of 96 per cent. This caused significant hardship to farmers and taxpayers will have to pay extra implementation costs. Defra has had to secure an extra £300 million to meet the potential cost of disallowance of expenditure by the European Commission arising on the problems in administering the scheme. Following on from a NAO report on this topic (HCP 1631, session 2005-06; ISBN 9780102943399 published in October 2006, as well as a report from the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee (HCP 107-I, session 2006-07, ISBN 9780215033383) published in March 2007, this report by the Public Accounts Committee examines the impact of the payment delays on the farming sector, why implementation failed, the role of Defra and the changes being put in place to rectify the mistakes made. Lessons highlighted include: the Department made the scheme unnecessarily complex by choosing to adopt the most demanding implementation option; the Rural Payments Agency shed too many experienced staff at a key time; implementation of the project started before the scheme specification was finalised; and the IT system was introduced without adequate testing, a failure often seen with government IT projects.
Author :Great Britain. Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780102962765 Total Pages :164 pages Book Rating :4.9/5 (627 download)
Book Synopsis Cold Comfort by : Great Britain. Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
Download or read book Cold Comfort written by Great Britain. Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2009 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report sets out the results of investigation into complaints, using two representative case studies, about the administration of the 2005 Single Payment Scheme in England, including the Rural Land Register. The Ombudsman made five general findings of maladministration: the Rural Payments Agency did not meet the legal obligation to determine entitlements by 31 December 2005; Defra & RPA failed to heed the warning information of their own systems and from the Office of Government Commerce; RPA's and Defra's public statements in early 2006 failed to recognise the internal concerns they had; on 30 January 2006 Defra officials and Ministers considered RPA's position - the best case scenario was 70% of payments to be made by the end of March 2006 and they decided to tell Parliament that RPA would make the 'bulk' of payments by the end of March 2006; RPA was the only body ina position to estimate how much more digital mapping work it would have and its planning for the mapping process fell far short of getting it right. In short the Ombudman's principles of getting it right, being open and accountable and being customer focussed were not adhered to
Download or read book Conundrum written by Richard Bacon and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government failure is affecting everyone. The single mum worried sick by a tax credit demand from HMRC to 'repay' thousands of pounds she never received; the family whose holiday was ruined because the Passport Office couldn't issue passports in time; the school that couldn't open at the start of term because CRB checks were being carried out by an organisation in meltdown; the farmers led to bankruptcy and even suicide by a Kafkaesque system for administering farm payments; and rail operators facing an uncertain future because the Department for Transport inadvertently landed the whole rail franchising system in chaos. Why is government getting it so wrong? Richard Bacon and Christopher Hope delve into the astonishing world of cock-ups and catastrophes and ponder why those at the top continue to fall short.
Author :Great Britain: Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780102975260 Total Pages :240 pages Book Rating :4.9/5 (752 download)
Book Synopsis More cold comfort by : Great Britain: Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
Download or read book More cold comfort written by Great Britain: Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Parliamentary Ombudsman, Ann Abraham, has upheld complaints from nine farmers about the Government's handling of a subsidy scheme which caused them to miss out on payments they were entitled to. The farmers complained to the Ombudsman about the administration of the Single Payment Scheme (SPS) in 2005 and 2006 by the Rural Payments Agency (RPA), part of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), The SPS is the latest generation of the EU schemes intended, among other policy aims, to give farmers direct income support. The farmers complained about RPA's handling of their claims to the SPS on a number of counts, including that they provided poor quality and sometimes ambiguous guidance on how to make a claim; failed to return applicants' telephone calls when this had been promised; misdirected applicants about the status of their cases; delayed letting applicants know that they would not be paid; and did not explain their decisions properly. RPA also failed to consider the effects their errors and omissions had on the farmers when they came to complain. In one case, a farmer misunderstood the new form and only claimed a subsidy for the year 2005. She did not activate her claim and subsequently did not receive a payment. No one questioned her mistake, even though RPA knew this was a common error by farmers. Losing a payment of over £13,000 left the farmer unable to pay all her bills and reliant on her partner's goodwill. She found out her mistake almost a year after submitting her claim, when she asked what had happened to her payment. Another farmer also misunderstood the new form and guidance and did not activate his claim. He was then led to believe by the RPA that he would be paid, which was not the case. He and his wife found the confusion and uncertainty of their circumstances particularly stressful. The farmer had to increase his overdraft, sell land and take on extra part time work in order to meet the financial shortfall. As a result of the Ombudsman's investigation the farmers will each receive a written apology from the Permanent Secretary of Defra and compensation of £500 for the inconvenience, distress and frustration that they experienced. They will also receive individual payments to put right the financial impact of RPA's failures. In addition, the Ombudsman has also asked RPA to provide an action plan setting out the changes they have made to prevent other farmers experiencing the same problems in future.
Download or read book Public Law written by Mark Elliott and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Law is a high quality introductory textbook that comprehensively covers the key topics found on undergraduate public law courses. Three key themes that permeate all of the content allow students to approach the content in a structured and easy to understand way and questions posed throughout the chapters give students the opportunity to provide answers that show how their knowledge has increased as the chapter progresses. The key themes are: -The significance of executive power in the contemporary constitution and the challenge of ensuring that those who wield it are held to account -The shift in recent times from a more political to a more legal constitution and the implications of this change -The increasingly 'multi-layered' character of the British constitution Online Resource Centre Public Law is accompanied by a free, open-access Online Resource Centre (www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/orc/elliott_thomas) which offers the following resources to support students: - Figures from the book reproduced online - A list of useful websites for students - Regularly posted legal and political updates for the book - A testbank of questions for tutors to assess students' progress This book has been highly endorsed by lecturers for level of coverage, accuracy, and the manner in which the three themes provide an excellent backdrop to the book's content. 'I think it will be a very welcome addition to the range of text books available and I suspect that it will become my personal favourite.' - Barbara Mauthe; Lancaster University 'I found the book impressive and likely to be of interest and use to a great many. It is written in a style that is pitched about the right level. It was easy to understand and provides - for me - a good blend of black letter law and socio-political context' - David Mead; University of East Anglia Written by two experienced teachers of the subject, Public Law is an essential new text that focuses on what students need to engage with and understand this challenging subject.
Author :Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee Publisher : ISBN 13 :9780215016904 Total Pages :20 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (169 download)
Book Synopsis Implementation of Cap Reform in the Uk,Seventh Report of Session by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
Download or read book Implementation of Cap Reform in the Uk,Seventh Report of Session written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report details the first part of the Committee's inquiry into the implementation of reforms to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), agreed by EU Agriculture Ministers in June 2003. It focuses on the ending of the direct link between farm subsidies and production through a decoupled farm payment, and in particular, the Government's decision to adopt a 'dynamic hybrid' model of single farm payment. The Committee raises concerns about the economic and environmental impacts of this model, and calls for further research to examine potential and actual distortions caused by it. The report also questions the capacity of the Rural Payments Agency to deliver the new Single Payment Scheme.
Author :Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215064721 Total Pages :166 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (647 download)
Book Synopsis House of Commons - Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee: Implementation of the Common Agricultural Policy in England 2014 - 2020 - HC 745 by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
Download or read book House of Commons - Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee: Implementation of the Common Agricultural Policy in England 2014 - 2020 - HC 745 written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against a background where farm incomes are falling, the Government needs to recognise that cutting payments to England's farmers will reduce their ability to compete in the marketplace, will leave farmers less able to invest in vital infrastructure and may make them more vulnerable to shocks such as poor weather, higher input costs and price variations. The Committee also warns against plans to transfer more money away from direct payments to farmers by shifting it towards environmental schemes. It recommends that the Government maintains the current 9% rate of transfer away from the direct payment budget. This rate of transfer should rise to 15% in 2017 only if it can demonstrate that additional funds are required and that this change will deliver a clear benefit. Money should also only go to people who actually farm the land and meet an 'active farmer test'. From 2015, 30% of the direct payment will be conditional on farmers achieving basic environmental measures. A National Certification Scheme approach to 'greening' does not offer the flexibility to avoid the Commission's impractical crop diversification rule so the Government is right to dismiss this approach. A new, single IT system is being developed, and the Government want access to CAP funding to be 'digital by default', meaning farmers will have to apply online. A lot went wrong in the last round of changes, and these problems gave rise to £580 million in penalties. Does it make sense to introduce a new computer system at the same time as complex new payment rules?
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215038241 Total Pages :130 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (382 download)
Book Synopsis The work of the committee in 2007 by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
Download or read book The work of the committee in 2007 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008-01-23 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Work of the Committee In 2007 : Third report of session 2007-08, report, together with formal Minutes
