Dem Action this day

[james armstrong]

COPY OF MY LETTER IN TODAY’S GUARDIAN 

 

Julian Glover rightly draws attention to the coyness
of  receivers of EU subsidy cheques in UK
under the Common Agricultural Policy.

(The Silence on EU Subsidies)

At this time of cuts in public spending there is some £3.9billion disbursed in UK
under this regime for which there is no proposal to make savings.



 Individuals receive  CAP cheques each year , in many
instances,  for amounts  of hundreds of thousands of pounds.  



 Many of the members of both houses of Parliament , as landowners receive
annual CAP  payments greatly in excess of their  salary/expenses).



James Armstrong, Dorchester

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PLEASE SEND  The
following letter to your MP. :

 

 

Dear (Your M,P.)                               CAP benefits to M.P.s                Dec 10

 

You will know that Mr  Richard  Drax , M.P., 
is a beneficiary of the Drax Estates and that they received  £417,000 in 2009 as CAP payment.  No doubt this amount has been increased
since. 

 

Many members of each House of Parliament are landowners and receive
annual CAP cheques some  of them in excess
of  their  official salary /expenses. 

 

It is the declared policy of 
EU to have these payments made public- hence the Defra web site with
that information.  However it is not easy
to relate  the information on claimants there,
which are often  companies,  to M.P.’s .

 

Debates and votes in parliament on money matters,
agriculture, EU and cuts in public expenditure 
may be coloured by M.P.’s receipts of such cheques which are dependent
on CAP regime which takes up some 45% of the EU budget. 

 

I hope you see the need for a register of members receipts
of CAP benefits which is accessible  to
all people. . 




 

Yours faithfully,

 

Name and address. 

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