The Sunday Post (Dundee)

Long-term risk to EU subsidies

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RURAL Scotland will benefit from more than £640 million of funding in 2017-18.

However, Fergus Ewing, Scottish Government Secretary for the Rural Economy, warned support for the sector is being put at risk by the prospect of a hard Brexit.

Scotland is expected to receive £3.9 billion from the European Union – around £500 million a year – between 2014 and 2020.

The Scottish Government said that without reassuranc­e that funding would continue after leaving the EU, rural communitie­s face losing subsidies.

Mr Ewing said: “While the UK Government has offered some assurances on funding over the short term, which we have committed to pass on in full, there are still more questions than answers in the longer term.”

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