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The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) is an executive agency of the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). Prior to Brexit, the RPA delivered the European Union (EU) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) payments to farmers and traders in England, paying out over £2 billion in subsidies each year. [ 1 ]
Rural affairs: rural productivity and connectivity, rural life opportunities (childcare, education, skills and health) DEFRA business in the House of Lords; Landscape, including National *Parks and AONBs; Access including rights of way and coastal paths; Animal and plant health; Domestic green finance and finance markets for nature and the ...
Policies for environment, food and rural affairs are delivered in the regions by Defra's executive agencies and delivery bodies, in particular Natural England, the Rural Payments Agency, Animal Health and the Marine Management Organisation. Defra provides grant aid to the following flood and coastal erosion risk management operating authorities:
It provides a business development service, a veterinary service and the College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise, and is responsible to the UK Government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) for the administration of schemes affecting the whole of the United Kingdom and also oversees the application of European ...
Agricultural finance is a branch of finance which comprises financial services for agricultural production, processing and marketing, leasing (both land and equipment), and crop and livestock insurance. Although agricultural finance mostly overlaps with rural finance, some larger agricultural companies are also located in bigger towns and cities.
Defra announced a further consultation on the draft England Rural Development Programme 2007-2013 in the context of the Programme's likely overall impact on the environment. The closing date is 5 July 2007. [17] According to this consultation document, [18] the measures proposed for the England Rural Development Programme 2007-2013 are: Axis I:
The Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs (Welsh: Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Materion Gwledig) is a member of the cabinet in the Welsh Government. The current officeholder is Huw Irranca-Davies since March 2024.
Action with Communities in Rural England (ACRE) is a registered charity [1] which represents 38 member groups (formerly known as rural community councils) who make up England's largest rural network. In 2020, the charity had links to 52,000 grassroots organisations in 11,000 rural communities.