Direct payments in the UK set to be maintained for ‘a number of years’

Direct payments in the UK set to be maintained for ‘a number of years’

This morning the UK Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Michael Gove, gave assurances that Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) payments will be maintained for a “ number of years “.

It is believed that the payments will be paid at the current rate until 2024.

Speaking this morning at the Oxford Farming Conference, Gove said: “I believe we should help land owners and managers to make the transition from our current system of subsidy to a new approach of public money for public goods over time.“We will formally leave the EU in March of 2019, but the government […]

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