Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Rural Affairs – in the Senedd at 1:55 pm on 28 June 2017.
I do think farmers need that money as quickly as possible. However, you’ll be aware that, firstly, we concentrated on the basic payment scheme, and 90 per cent of people received that funding on the first day that the window opened. In relation to Glastir, we said, from the outset, that we would start paying the Glastir payments in February. We actually started in January because we’d done so well on the basic payment scheme. We actually started a month early, and my officials have been working very hard to progress all but the most complex of Glastir cases by the end of this month—so, by the end of this week. There’ll be a small number of farmers who won’t be paid this week, and they will be written to and explained why that is, but I hope very much that that will be completed by the end of July.