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Single Farm Payments - 21 May 2004

Mr. Curry: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on what basis the single farm payment will be established for farmers who were in the dairy sector prior to the foot and mouth disease outbreak whose flocks were slaughtered because of the outbreak of foot and mouth disease and who restocked with (a) dairy cows and (b) beef and sheep. [169465]

Alun Michael: Dairy farmers whose flocks were slaughtered because of the outbreak of foot and mouth disease, and who restocked with:

(a) dairy cows will be able to claim entitlements whose initial value will be based on the milk quota available on their holding on 31 March 2005.

(b) beef and sheep before 29 September 2003 will be able to claim entitlements from the National Reserve.

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