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Torsten Brinch wrote in message
...
On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 19:13:20 +0000, Tim Lamb
wrote:

http://www.defra.gov.uk/esg/work_htm.../current/chapt
er
9.pdf
gives agrimonetary compensation
97/98 98/99 99/00 00/01 01/02 02/03
£0 £0 £152.4 £76.6 £28.6 £25
figures in £millions.
(Note, the source is misquoted. The number £25 is not a forecast
of 02/03 (*). It is the RPA administered fraction of the forecasted
£28.6 million payed out in 01/02.)

According to the NFU, over the past 3 years, agrimonetary compensation
has been potentially available, to a sum total of £433 million, of
which £291 million was actually paid. That is £142 million/3 years, or
£47 million/yr. gone missing. That's only a few % of the total dole
handed out to you during that period. How can this be significant for
your situation?


given that Torsten, in reply to

The situation is not helped by the UK Govts. reluctance to claim
the monetary compensation.


went on to say

Which fraction of the subsidy gone missing on this account are we
looking at? (I am questioning the significance of it, in the
situation


and is now quoting figures that he obviously knew before, he is
obviously playing silly beggars.


--
Jim Webster

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'Abd-ar-Rahman b. Muhammad b. Khaldun al-Hadrami'