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DIGITAL - DELIVERING BETTER OUTCOMES FOR RURAL COMMUNITIES AND GOVERNMENTJune 2014

1|UK Agriculture in Context

2|Grants Payments

3|A Digital Insight

4|Better Outcomes

AGRICULTURE IN THE UK

Northern IrelandScotland

England

Department of Agriculture & Rural Development (DARD)

Directorate for Agriculture, Food & Rural Communities (DAFRC)

Wales Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA)Department for Agricultural

Affairs

GRANTS PAYMENTS

Heavily regulated by European Commission under Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)

the framework under which European farmers operate> 40% of the entire EC BudgetCritical for the financial livelihood of many rural communities

CAP 2015 - a move away from subsidies to provision of public good, particularly environmental policy

DEFRA

Delivering £15BN of grant payments over next 5 years

A major CAP Delivery Programme underway to improve systems and ensure compliance with the 2015 CAP policy requirements

Business case built on improvement and disallowance mitigation:Disallowance = fines from Regulator (EC) for non-compliance or errordisallowance penalties finalised or provided for since the introduction of the CAP 2005 in 2008-09 is £600.1 million NAO 2013

Large proportion of grants are paid on Land related claims

Spatial data currency, accuracy, auditability and compliance is key to mitigating disallowance

SPATIAL DATA

Sopra delivering the Land and Inspections area of the CAP programme

open source & open standardsworking closely with GDSuser centric design

A major shift to empowering land owners and agents - digital by default

self serve map edits shift from paper based processpotential reduced burden on DEFRAgreater accuracy

USER CENTRIC DESIGN EXAMPLEAS IS

2 screens required

Lots of pop ups

Limited space for maps

Slow to learn

USER CENTRIC DESIGN EXAMPLETO BE

Large view of map

De-cluttered interface

Intuitive buttons for faster learning curve

Tools and panels only show when you need them, keeps things clean

GOV.UK design

Continuous User testing and iteration

Modern HTML5 and CSS3 technologies

For GovernmentDigital by defaultStronger validation = improved data = disallowance mitigationAccessible data & control framework for EC auditorsGreater usability for internal usersOpen source & open standardsScheme agnostic data structure – less future code change

For Rural CommunitiesGreater control – self serve map editor to do real time changes‐ reduced paper maps and red ink!

Reduced disallowance = more money to pay to those in needLess risk of payment delay due to EC audit

BETTER OUTCOMES

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