The Queen was paid more than £224,000 in EU subsidies for her Windsor farm estate last year, according to figures obtained by The Mail on Sunday.Details of the payments, released under the Freedom of Information Act, raise questions about the country’s richest landowners benefiting from grants under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
The subsidy for the 500-acre dairy and cereal farm, which was founded by Queen Victoria’s husband Prince Albert, has increased by almost £40,000 since 2009.
Similar amounts are thought to have been paid to the Monarch to support her estates in Sandringham and Balmoral, but the Government refused to release this information.
Meanwhile, Environment and Fisheries Minister Richard Benyon’s family estates received £211,000 in EU farming grants.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has ordered an information blackout on all other farming subsidies paid to wealthy landowners, claiming an EU ruling last year prevents disclosure of the information. Read More
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