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Publication - Research and analysis

Estimation of sectoral CAP payment 'envelopes' 2019

Published
12 May 2022
Directorate
Agriculture and Rural Economy Directorate, +1 more … Environment and Forestry Directorate
Part of
Farming and rural
ISBN
9781804352731

This report uses data on the level of past funding provided to individual farm businesses and Standard Output (SO) values to estimate notional payment ‘envelopes’ to different sectors.

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Estimation of sectoral payment envelopes

9. Whilst the total 'direct' support dispersed (after penalties) amounted to £508.8 million in 2019 scheme year there was £1.92 million distributed to 240 businesses (BRNs) with no JAC data entry. Therefore, for this analysis, there were 17,850 JAC businesses in receipt of 'Direct' support totalling £506.9 million that was allocatable to sectors.

10. Using Thomson and Moxey's SO model, Figure 3 show that beef activities were allocated 43.5% (£220.6m) of total 'direct' payments in 2019, whilst sheep activities were allocated 23.6% (£119.7m), crop and horticulture 24.7% (£125.1m) and dairy activities 5.3% (£27m). A further 2.9% (£14.5m) was allocated to grazing or fodder crops without any stocking activity during the JAC reporting period.

Figure 3 Distribution of the allocable Scottish 'Direct' CAP payments to sectoral envelopes, 2019
doughnut pie chart showing the distribution of estimated sectoral payments. From a total £506.8m allocated in the model the segments of the chart include: 9,676 Beef Envelope recipients, £220.56m, 43.5% of total; 10,123 Sheep Envelope recipients, £119.71m, 23.6% of total; 819 Dairy Envelope recipients, £26.97m, 5.3% of total; 6,876 Crop Envelope recipients, £125.14m, 24.7% of total; 3,219 Other Envelope recipients, £14.49m, 2.9% of total

11. In addition to these payments £48.5m was paid to 3,611 (including non-agricultural) businesses in 2019 through Agri-Environment Climate Scheme (AECS), Forestry Grant Schemes (FGS) and legacy schemes such as Environmentally Sensitive Area and Farmland Premium Scheme. Figure 4 reveals that there were 145 recipients of £2.3 million capital grant through AECS, with 2,318 receiving £23.5 million in recurrent payments. 145 businesses received £15.9 million FGS capital grants with £5.8 million in recurrent payments made to 625 businesses in 2019. 682 businesses were in receipt of legacy environmental and forestry payments.

12. Table 1 provides a summary of the distribution of funding (lower quartile, median, mean and upper quartile) within the individual components of each of the sectoral envelopes, as well as payments made through environmental and forestry schemes. In both the crop and dairy envelopes the BPS accounted for 66% of the support with greening making up the remainder (34%). However, in the beef and sheep sectors the addition of LFASS and coupled support schemes meant that the BPS and Greening accounted for a lower proportion of the sectoral envelope (e.g. BPS was 51% of the sheep envelope and only 45% of the beef envelope).

Figure 4 Payments through competitive agri-environment and forestry (including legacy) schemes, 2019
doughnut pie chart showing the distribution of the 48.5 million environmental, forestry and legacy support. The segments of the char include: 145 AECS Capital recipients, £2.31m, 4.8% of total; 2,318 AECS Recurrent recipients, £23.53m, 48.5% of total; 311 FGS Capital recipients, £15.89m, 32.8% of total; 625 FGS Recurrent recipients, £5.82m, 12.0% of total; 682 Legacy recipients, £0.97m, 2.0% of total
Table 1: Estimated value (€m) of national, beef and dairy funding envelopes
BRNs Amount % of Sectoral Envelope Lower Quartile Median Mean Upper Quartile
Beef Envelope £220,560,802
SSBSSI 1,214 £5,900,301 2.7% £741 £2,223 £4,860 £6,373
SSBSSM 5,540 £34,189,295 15.5% £1,523 £3,961 £6,171 £8,024
BES 107 £226,158 0.1% £592 £1,632 £2,114 £2,848
Beef BPS 9,483 £100,096,509 45.4% £2,367 £6,628 £10,555 £13,968
Beef Greening 9,488 £51,198,719 23.2% £1,196 £3,387 £5,396 £7,136
Beef LFASS 6,880 £28,949,820 13.1% £825 £2,318 £4,208 £5,308
Sheep Envelope £119,706,498
SUSSS 1,124 £7,048,043 5.9% £686 £1,746 £6,271 £7,827
Sheep BPS 9,850 £61,192,544 51.1% £827 £2,334 £6,212 £6,771
Sheep Greening 9,861 £30,294,546 25.3% £420 £1,180 £3,072 £3,407
Sheep LFASS 8,298 £21,171,365 17.7% £385 £778 £2,551 £2,533
Dairy Envelope £26,973,669
Dairy BPS 819 £17,765,180 65.9% £13,156 £18,336 £21,691 £25,816
Dairy Greening 819 £9,208,489 34.1% £6,834 £9,496 £11,244 £13,412
Crop Envelope £125,141,605
Crop BPS 6,863 £82,373,802 65.8% £1,539 £5,210 £12,003 £14,717
Crop Greening 6,870 £42,767,803 34.2% £788 £2,655 £6,225 £7,650
Other Envelope £14,489,741
Other BPS 4,445 £9,531,490 65.8% £426 £1,192 £2,144 £3,276
Other Greening 4,465 £4,958,250 34.2% £222 £624 £1,110 £1,704
Environment & Forestry Envelope £48,512,568
AECS Capital 145 £2,306,699 4.8% £4,131 £12,073 £15,908 £24,254
AECS Recurrent 2,318 £23,532,975 48.5% £3,678 £7,158 £10,152 £12,643
FGS Capital 311 £15,888,490 32.8% £6,828 £13,954 £51,088 £49,198
FGS Recurrent 625 £5,816,668 12.0% £1,600 £4,160 £9,307 £10,317
Legacy 682 £967,736 2.0% £357 £812 £1,419 £1,922

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