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Alastair Walton
Alastair Walton is a policy adviser in the Direct Payments Team within the Future Farming and Countryside Programme.
Part of Alastair’s work includes designing a lump sum exit scheme for farmers.
An update on the Lump Sum Exit Scheme and delinked payments
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It can be difficult for farmers who wish to retire or leave the industry to do so. A lack of capital can prevent them. We think that our Lump Sum Exit Scheme could help them. Last year, we ran a consultation with farmers and other experts, and the findings supported this view. In this post, …
Call for views: leaving the sector and delinked payments
We want to offer farmers in England the option to leave the sector with a lump sum payment. We also plan to delink Direct Payments from the land. Today we launch a consultation on our proposals. In this post, I’ll give an overview.
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