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Questions and Answers
Date answered:
5 February 2001
These measures take into account environmental conditions within the catchment and the latest scientific and technical information.It is important that farmers understand the rules and what they need to do to comply with them and we will provide help in the form of guidance booklets in order to assist farmers in this process.
The resulting average cost figure is uprated on an annual basis. The latest published figure for the average cost of answering written questions is £115 (Hansard, 11 March 1999, Column 363).
Although we have reduced the number of targets by getting the Executive to strip out many of the process targets, my point is that, as you said earlier, a priority target is attached to almost every level 2 priority in the portfolio budgets.