Sentence examples for single payment scheme from inspiring English sources

The single payment scheme, which accounts for most of the money, is an award for owning land.

It will also introduce some automation of processes, which will cover areas such as the pre-population of the single payment scheme application.

A few, such as Labour's comically bungled distribution of European Union subsidies to British farmers under a new "single payment" scheme, were scarcely noticed even at the time.

Greenpeace said the top 100 received £87.9m in agricultural subsidies last year, of which £61.2m came from the single payment scheme, where the size of the land owned largely determines the grant amount: more than the bottom 55,119 recipients in the single payment scheme received together.

In 2003, the EU agreed to replace a blizzard of farm-support payments with a single payment scheme, which subsidises farmers' incomes directly, rather than by paying higher prices for their crops and livestock.

"Many major projects where there were clear value for money concerns, such as implementation of the Single Payment Scheme for farmers (2005-2014) or the National Programme for IT in the NHS (2002-2011), have not been the subject of directions," it said.

In July 2011 the National Audit Office said that IT managers responsible for the single payments scheme at the agency should not be paid bonuses until the systems had been improved.

In its plan for 2012-2017, thexecutiveve agency of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs says that the poor quality of data it holds has been one of the main causes of errors and backlogs in its much criticised £350m single payments scheme, which pays subsidies to landowners.

The data used were obtained by aggregating payments received since 2003 under the single payments scheme and from the two RDP programs, namely RDP 2000-2006 and RDP 2007-2013, by the farms located in each municipality.

The CAP single farm payment scheme is discussed in the light of these findings.

They use the Single Area Payment Scheme (SAPS) - different from the direct payments used in older EU states.